Artificial Intelligence / Unit 5 AI 0226 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bottom-Up: Derive Everything
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The idea
The bottom-up procedure starts from the facts and repeatedly fires any rule whose whole body is established, adding its head — stopping when nothing new can be added.
In practice
Facts in, conclusions out, no questions asked — the procedure is thorough and undirected by design.
Where people slip
Elsewhere the pair is called forward and backward chaining; this course says bottom-up and top-down, once and forever.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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