Friday, August 7, 2009

Fuzzy Logic. How you may think without mathematics (a few seconds)

Although issued from an old work, my last achievement is a tutorial about fuzzy logic. Fuzzy Logic will never help any machine in self-consciousness improvement. I would be very glad if at least this tutorial helped anybody in discovering this alternative technique of industrial control.

This post may seem irrelevant: never Fuzzy Logic will improve intelligence of any machine. However, a fuzzy logic controller is a good example of pragmatism triumph: facing issues in mathematical modeling of your process, you may implement this technique providing that a human expert knows how to control a given process. Instead of modeling your process, you build a model of controlling behavior from your expert's skills!

Many people think next breakthrough in artificial thinking will come from mathematics. Not so sure! Mathematics will serve as a ladder to reach new horizons.
Breakthroughs would rather come from other ways, such as specifications and brainstorm, then from iterative experiments. In this case, mathematics will come later and will provide other significant improvements. The semiconductor world has already experienced such a development, from experiment to theory. Labs engineers were running ahead, and theoricians did their best in catching up, trimming parameters to explain previous results!

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