Comment by sgt101
2 years ago
Didn't he:
- invent case based reasoning
- build Eurisko and AM
- write a discipline defining paper ("Why AM and Eurisko appear to work")
- undertake an ambitious but ultimately futile high risk research gamble with Cyc?
Case-based reasoning is VERY old. It shows up prominently in the Catholic tradition of practical ethics, drawing on Aristotelian thought. Of course in a more informal sense, people have been reasoning on a case-by-case basis since time immemorial.
That's not what is meant here by case-based reasoning; CBR instead is an AI method which was prominent in the eighties and nineties where knowledge was represented in a semi-formal text representation and similarity was established by multi-dimensional assiociative indexing. One of the leading figures of the method was Roger Schank.
While futile from a personal and business aspect, it’s certainly valuable and useful otherwise. Maybe that’s implied here as you’re listing contributions, but I wanted to emphasize that it wasn’t a waste outside of that narrow band of futility.
I agree, and the fact that someone walked that path has been extremely valuable as well. I think we learned a lot from the cyc effort.