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Patent drawing for Knowledge base comprising executable stories
US 8,170,967 B2
Machine learning US 8,170,967 B2 Expired

Knowledge base comprising executable stories

This invention describes a computer system designed to help people make decisions. It stores information in a collection of "executable stories," where each story contains a set of ideas or possibilities (hypotheses) and text snippets that support or refute those ideas. The system can then convert these stories into a format that various decision-making computer programs can understand and use, with at least one story specifically using a Dempster-Shafer belief network.

Why it matters: Filed before the widespread adoption of advanced AI and large language models. LLMs could now automate the creation of evidence templates and assist in building and managing the complex belief networks, significantly reducing the manual effort required in 2008.

Status
ExpiredProtection ended and was never renewed
How hard to build
SpecializedComplex software system, probabilistic graphical models

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