acoustic? ACOUSTIC???

[Anne Beetem]

>In a message dated 2/13/98 12:07:49 PM, birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca wrote:

>  In the search for a truly artifcially intelligent computer, the term of
>"fuzzy logic" is often used.  "Fuzzy Logic" as I understand it samples the
>universe available to it in seeking 'all' possible realtionships to all
>information/data in it's universe in answering any question. It uses those
>items which are a close match as well as those that are an direct match in the
>formulation of it's answers.  This is in contrast to the systems that derive
>answers from the exact correlations built into the system and does not
>consider anything that is not a direct match. (i.e. sampling)
>(my understanding is probably not exactly accurate, but it's close, sorta,
>maybe)
>  So when you said, " Probably not this yet, but they will get wise soon that
>a new direction is needed." , perhap this "fuzzy logic" will be either 'the'
>new direction or 'a' new direction. In any event it will be interesting
>watching the developments of the next few years.
>Jim Bryant (FL)


O.K. I confess.  In a previous life I was a computer science researcher.
Dreadfully boring.    Now, fellows,  fuzzy logic may provide more options,
but there still must be a way to choose among the options,  i.e. a metric ,
a best fit algorithm, a higher valued configuration based on some formula,
predetermined for what is desireable.  Even if we use many levels of search
for best,  what is best?  Who will decide?   Yamaha?  Stephen?   Del?  Me?
Korg?

Best,   Anne






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