Abstract

The field of Artificial Intelligence has reached a critical stage. A good Artificial Intelligence system, must include a knowledge-base with abilities comparable to those possessed by humans. To date, we have not been able to achieve this goal. Even in a restricted problem domain, current sequential search techniques are much too slow to handle a knowledge-base of sufficient size to produce a human-like intelligence, since the search time increases linearly with the increasing size of the knowledge-base.

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