Leatherbound AI notes p4 (2003)

Leatherbound AI notes p4

Sunday, November 20, 2005

4:37 PM

V "Everyone says that you lie to me"

Introduces Doubt

B "Do they? Do I give you a lot of contradictory information?"

V"No" Doubt Reduced… (a little)

Importance

Frequency of use

Very important - as told by several people w/ high believability scores

Expertise

Increases believability in a particular tree. In user gives a lot of non-contradictory info under a particular node, their expertise level goes up.

[11/20/2005 I'm amazed by how much went unsaid here. There is enough to trigger the right memories, though. The exchange above highlights the attribute by which no truth is unshakable. AI questions the believability of his master. I'm imagining all sorts of scenarios going on in the real world. For example, I release this AI brain and it skyrockets in popularity. Mob mentality can kick in and people could gang up to tell the AI brain that I lie. (This isn't paranoia, just fascinating fuel for consideration - I'd welcome that challenge)

The importance section is a carry-over from the core attribute that memories and facts solidify with repetition. I was talking about this with Amy in the car today when I realized that repetition in the immediate memory doesn't make a lasting impression because only the summary will make it to the long term storage. Long term storage will be invigorated by review later on down the road. I imagine a clock ticking away on short term memory which lasts just long enough to allow context but not long enough to take up valuable system resources. I wonder if I can use computer memory as short term memory and hard drive as long term. That would be interesting. The hard drive only stores summaries and analogies…. That is a story for another time.

Another idea triggered by the importance section has to do with weighting. Since AI won't have any life threatening hazards to contend with (it will work through positive reinforcement) I have to find some rule for highlighting the importance of certain concepts. "Don't tell anyone my phone number," for example could be bypassed if the computer could be bamboozled easily. A use could say "Oh, Brien told me to tell you to give it to me."

Expertise should probably be a side-effect of learning and interaction rather than a weighted attribute. If someone gives a lot of good discussion that makes sense on a particular branch of "cepts", they could be considered an expert. The concept of 'expert' can simply be defined as a cept with AI.]