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Stuart Russell: The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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How to Get the Extensive Power of First Order Logic

First order logic lets us write things like the rules of chess very concisely. In fact, a whole bunch of common sense knowledge is easy to write down in first order logic. How do we combine that with probability theory so that we get the ability to handle real uncertain information from sensor data? That became blog or the Bayesian logic language. And I've rebuilt some quite significant systems like the monitoring global monitoring system for the nuclear test ban treaty was one example.

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