The Size of the Knowledge Base and Speed-Knowledge Independence in the Adaptive Intelligent Systems Architecture

The Size of the Knowledge Base and Speed-Knowledge Independence in the Adaptive Intelligent Systems Architecture

The vast amount of information in the environment suggests that the symbolic world model which AIS builds to represent the world may also grow very large. However, the AIS must still be able to act within the limited response time it is afforded. The processing speed of the underlying hardware does not guarantee this independence, so further changes must be made to the style of control to achieve the desired result.

Whether this desideratum is achievable in practice appears to be an open issue for AIS. Although, the above speed-knowledge independence is described as a feature of AIS, the actual LISP machine implementation shows significant performance degradation, even before completion of a two-hour (real time) simulation. The designers attribute this to memory management, but it is not clear that other platforms may avoid this problem, given the possibility of data overload.


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