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Element 69

69●›
Tc
Teach

Correct it so the correction sticks.

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First known

Opened

1979TEIRESIAS (for MYCIN): the expert answers No to its conclusions, helps it find the missing rule, and the new rule stays in the knowledge base. Randall Davis, Stanford.

See also: ADALINE: 'A pattern is fed to the machine, and the reference switch is set to correspond to the desired output' (Widrow & Hoff, 30 June 1960).

“Are all these identities correct? ++** N ... RULE383 has now been added to the knowledge base. ... Are all these values correct now? ... Good, then the problem's been fixed.”

Mozilla's junk button (2003) is the consumer form of a loop that expert-system tools had by the late 1970s: say it is wrong, show it why, and it does not make that mistake again.

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

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Specimen № 69 — operate freely

Three letters are in the wrong pile. Correct one, say why, then open tomorrow's mail.

Fig. 69 — Teach

000 readings · idle

On the guess: its twin

  1. on the guessTcTeach
  2. on the errandReRemember

The two series line up in pairs. Each act on a guess sits above the act that does the same thing to an errand, so Teach and Remember are one move made on two kinds of thing.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Teach takes.

  • not spam
  • not interested
  • this is my sister