Open-Loop Process

An open-loop process is a type of sensory system used to give expert systems and other AIs a form of continuous feed of an outside environment. It is wide in scope and functionality, yet produces no precise known margins of error, and is extremely computationally expensive. It is worth noting that this is the method the human brain uses to perceive and act in the world.

Open loop systems work without a pre-defined system of variables. Instead, they analyse the scene, and determine what is moving, what is approaching, and what is not. Distances calculated, scene analysed, and a variable list produced. The values of each variable are determined, assigned, and predictions made on how they could change ? determining potential collision zones for example. The system then acts accordingly, and performs a new sensor sweep.

In the new sweep, some variables may be discarded, others may be added. This is why it is impossible to reliably judge margins for error from one sensor session to the next.

See Also: Closed-Loop Process

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Closed-Loop Process

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The Open Cognition Project
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Podcast: Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
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Large Image Display: Building a Dynamic Reality in the Matrix: Part 2
This is the second of two such large images showing the process of building a Matrix Universe VR world via the process of animation, which makes it clearer to see what is going on and draw parallels to our own methods of building worlds.

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