Re: KR for Cogai/gentle reminder

Whereas Dave says "the focus is on what is needed to solve different kinds of complex tasks," I'd suggest in slightly different wording that the focus should be on achieving human goals and objectives.
Otherwise, what's the point of knowledge, much less how it is "represented"?  For the sake of the "tasks" as ends unto themselves?
From my perspective, the first step is to clearly document the objective(s).
Unless and until that occurs, determining what may be required to "solve" them is pretty much a hit or miss proposition, with a lot of missing and little learning.  On the other hand, it does allow us to claim success regardless of the outcome.  Reference serendipity and CMM Level 1.
I guess we can continue muddling through life in E-mail exchanges like this... which I'm glad to see that some subscribers are enjoying.
But wouldn't it be better (and perhaps even more fun or at least more satisfying) to have more mature business-quality networking services, enabling the marshalling of resouces to achieve the desired objectives?
With regard to the incumbents, is there any reason to believe the power of creative destruction can be thwarted?  Or might it merely be a matter of time?
Owen Amburhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/
 

    On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 06:43:42 AM EDT, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:  
 
 


On 3 Nov 2022, at 22:16, Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com> wrote:
how do people and machines reason and carry out inferences without KR? 

How do you define KR, and do you accept other people’s definitions?
Wikipedia, for example, defines knowledge representation and reasoning as the field of AI dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that computer system can use to solve complex tasks, see:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning
That is quite general and avoids a dependency on how information is represented.  Instead the focus is on what is needed to solve different kinds of complex tasks.
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>