MSG: *MSG 936 Date: 12/13/81 22:51:03 From: KRD at MIT-AI The following notice appeared on the SAIL bboard, and is posted here without comment. -- KRD ***************************** Special AI Seminar Tuesday, November 16, 1:15pm Margaret Jacks 252 Speaker: John Harwood University of California at Orland Title: IMMANUEL: A Wisdom Based System for Discovering Deep Philosophical Ideas Abstract: It has been widely recognized that AI programs require expert knowledge in order to perform well in complex domains. But knowledge alone is not sufficient for some applications; wisdom is needed as well. Accordingly, we have developed a new approach to artificial intelligence which we call "wisdom engineering". As a test of our ideas, we have written IMMANUEL, a wisdom based system for the task domain of western philosophical thought. IMMANUEL was supplied initially with 200 wisdom units which contained wisdom about such elementary concepts as mind, matter, being, nothingness, and so forth. IMMANUEL was then allowed to run freely, guided by the heuristic rules contained in its heterarchically organized meta wisdom base. IMMANUEL succeeded in rediscovering most of the important philosophical ideas developed in western culture over the course of the last 25 centuries, including those underlying Plato's theory of government, Kant's metaphysics, Nietzsche's theory of value, and Husserl's phenomenology. In this seminar, we will describe IMMANUEL's achievements and internal architecture. We will also briefly discuss our recent efforts to apply wisdom engineering to oil exploration.