Interesting. What I’m hearing is that while the original two methods likely achieve the requisite attention spreading they don’t do this fast enough.
Rather than introduce a new third method, it seems to me that we could simply replace the spreading of importance from everything in the AF with the spreading of importance K links out, where the value of K might be determined from context. The “third method” really just seems to me to be a generalized version of AF spreading rather than a new method. As Roman points out, the actual mechanics of how to spread K links out also needs to be determined. —matt > On Sep 12, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: > > A somewhat interesting point came up in discussions w/ Misgana re ECAN > today... > > So far we have been working on two methods of attention allocation: > > -- spreading importance from everything in the AttentionalFocus, frequently > > -- spreading importance from everything in the Atomspace, but more > slowly (by sampling Atoms from the Atomspace with probability > proportional to STI, and then spreading from each Atom as it's > sampled) > > But we have seen a need now for a third method > > -- iterating through every X in the AttentionalFocus, and spreading > importance K links out from X (where, say, K=2 or 3) > > The practical use-case that made this requirement clear was: rapidly > boosting the importance of question-answers, that contain words which > are in the AF.... The question-answers are ImplicationLinks, which > point to ListLinks, which point to words ... so to get STI to the > ImplicationLink, a word in the AF needs to send STI to the ListLink > which then needs to send STI to the ImplicationLink... > > But more generally one can view this as an importance-spreading agent > aimed at spreading activity from the AttentionalFocus to the "Fringe" > of consciousness -- those things that one can feel at the back of > one's mind, on the edge of one's consciousness ... one is aware they > are there but not quite aware of what they are, but one can generally > with effort pull them into one's awareness... > > Sometimes spreading enough STI into the Fringe will cause something in > the Fringe to get boosted into the AttentionalFocus .... > > -- Ben > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > Super-benevolent super-intelligence is the thought the Global Brain is > currently struggling to form... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBdGNipWfnguuZY%2ByyGtnCxAKoXfqoTiYMSsGcqj0rQ5Mw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/1F463D95-D0D5-4B95-9D4D-092C0EEFDDFC%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
