abductive reasoning

[toborman]

I’m working on a routine to give Hal abductive reasoning abilities, but my lack of experience with the brain editor functions is holding things up.

I’m looking for a function that matches the second entry of the deductive.brn and returns the first entry.  Also, I would like a way to return multiple answers, if present.

Hal would behave as follows:

(current behaviour)
' User: If a person is overweight, then that person’s health is in danger.
' Ultra Hal: I see the relationship.
' User: If a person drinks excessively, then that person’s health is in danger.
' Ultra Hal: I see the relationship.
‘ User: Molly is a person.
‘ Ultra Hal: I see.

(new behaviour)
' User: Molly's health is in danger.
' Ultra Hal: Is that because Molly is overweight or because Molly drinks excessively?
or
' User: Why do you think Molly's health is in danger?
' Ultra Hal: Possibly because Molly is overweight or because Molly drinks excessively.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

quote:Originally posted by toborman

I’m working on a routine to give Hal abductive reasoning abilities, but my lack of experience with the brain editor functions is holding things up.

I’m looking for a function that matches the second entry of the deductive.brn and returns the first entry.  Also, I would like a way to return multiple answers, if present.

Hal would behave as follows:

(current behaviour)
' User: If a person is overweight, then that person’s health is in danger.
' Ultra Hal: I see the relationship.
' User: If a person drinks excessively, then that person’s health is in danger.
' Ultra Hal: I see the relationship.
‘ User: Molly is a person.
‘ Ultra Hal: I see.

(new behaviour)
' User: Molly's health is in danger.
' Ultra Hal: Is that because Molly is overweight or because Molly drinks excessively?
or
' User: Why do you think Molly's health is in danger?
' Ultra Hal: Possibly because Molly is overweight or because Molly drinks excessively.

Hi toborman.

I did what you are asking a couple of years ago for HAL 5.

I never applied it to the HAL 6 version but wouldn't be hard to convert it, after I finish my other code project I will see if I can get it out to you.

Jerry[8D]

[toborman]

Thanks Jerry,

I'm looking forward to getting the info.