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Michael DeBellis
, …
John F Sowa
28
Jan 30
Data Mesh and Data Fabric
John F
Sowa
wrote: > > Ravi, Michael, Mark, > > Every communication in any notation of any kind is based on some ontology at some level. > > Michael: can you explain
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Data Mesh and Data Fabric
John F
Sowa
wrote: > > Ravi, Michael, Mark, > > Every communication in any notation of any kind is based on some ontology at some level. > > Michael: can you explain
Jan 30
John F Sowa
Jan 22
What the numbers show about AI's Harms
inherent in
LLM
technology when used as the primary or only version of AI. The most secure AI systems mitigate or avoid these problems by using traditional symbolic AI technology as
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What the numbers show about AI's Harms
inherent in
LLM
technology when used as the primary or only version of AI. The most secure AI systems mitigate or avoid these problems by using traditional symbolic AI technology as
Jan 22
Kingsley Idehen
, …
Jans Aasman
7
Jan 5
NotebookLM -- A breakout GenAI Tool for enhanced communications.
with >
LLM
-powered tooling aimed at improving communication and related workflows. > > Kingsley > On 1/1/26 9:51 PM, John F
Sowa
wrote: > > Jans and Kingsley, >
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NotebookLM -- A breakout GenAI Tool for enhanced communications.
with >
LLM
-powered tooling aimed at improving communication and related workflows. > > Kingsley > On 1/1/26 9:51 PM, John F
Sowa
wrote: > > Jans and Kingsley, >
Jan 5
John F Sowa
, …
Simon Polovina
7
11/3/25
Computable Contracts for Insurance: Establishing an Insurance-Specific Controlled Natural Language
originally developed
LLM
technology as a major improvement for language translation, both natural and artificial. For that purpose, it has been an outstanding success. It's
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Computable Contracts for Insurance: Establishing an Insurance-Specific Controlled Natural Language
originally developed
LLM
technology as a major improvement for language translation, both natural and artificial. For that purpose, it has been an outstanding success. It's
11/3/25
John F Sowa
, …
Nadin, Mihai
4
10/13/25
The AI Bubble
John F
Sowa
wrote: se amounts of $$$ have been poured down the AI drain in hopes that something spectacular will happen. This kind of overinvestment has caused periodic Boom & Bust
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The AI Bubble
John F
Sowa
wrote: se amounts of $$$ have been poured down the AI drain in hopes that something spectacular will happen. This kind of overinvestment has caused periodic Boom & Bust
10/13/25
Kingsley Idehen
, …
Alex Shkotin
14
10/12/25
RDF finally has its long awaited Generic Client!
John F
Sowa
: >> >>> Alex, >>> >>> Wolfram and others make an important check to avoid those errors. >>> >>> Wolfram translates
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RDF finally has its long awaited Generic Client!
John F
Sowa
: >> >>> Alex, >>> >>> Wolfram and others make an important check to avoid those errors. >>> >>> Wolfram translates
10/12/25
John F Sowa
, …
Alex Shkotin
6
10/1/25
LLMs, by themselves, are not intelligent
John F
Sowa
(
sowa
@bestweb.net) kirjoitti: > >> Alex, >> >> What I did was to call the company that used that service. Then I >> explained that the service
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LLMs, by themselves, are not intelligent
John F
Sowa
(
sowa
@bestweb.net) kirjoitti: > >> Alex, >> >> What I did was to call the company that used that service. Then I >> explained that the service
10/1/25
John F Sowa
9/6/25
is the AI bubble about to burst?
of the
LLM
-based AI technology. I agree with his negative evaluation of AI systems that use only LLMs and large volumes of data from which the LLMs find or generate answers to any requests
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is the AI bubble about to burst?
of the
LLM
-based AI technology. I agree with his negative evaluation of AI systems that use only LLMs and large volumes of data from which the LLMs find or generate answers to any requests
9/6/25
John F Sowa
, …
Alex Shkotin
18
9/5/25
AI and psychological impact
John F
Sowa
: > Alex, > > There are infinitely many finite models. In fact, it's impossible to > observe or compute more than a finite number of instances. That implies
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AI and psychological impact
John F
Sowa
: > Alex, > > There are infinitely many finite models. In fact, it's impossible to > observe or compute more than a finite number of instances. That implies
9/5/25
John F Sowa
8/23/25
Dangers of using ChatTPT in education
applications of
LLM
technology, but methods that allow people -- especially students -- to avoid thinking for themselves weaken their ability to learn and think in deeper and more
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Dangers of using ChatTPT in education
applications of
LLM
technology, but methods that allow people -- especially students -- to avoid thinking for themselves weaken their ability to learn and think in deeper and more
8/23/25
John F Sowa
, …
Kingsley Idehen
3
8/8/25
Why large language models hallucinate
of an
LLM
, an approach as used in the latest version of law analysis in the Netherlands. In short: 1. Definitions of the TERMS used in the data definitions, derivation rules and processes
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Why large language models hallucinate
of an
LLM
, an approach as used in the latest version of law analysis in the Netherlands. In short: 1. Definitions of the TERMS used in the data definitions, derivation rules and processes
8/8/25
Alex Shkotin
, …
John F Sowa
18
7/26/25
Computable Contracts for Insurance: Establishing an Insurance-Specific Controlled Natural Language - InsurLE
John F
Sowa
: > Alex, > > I am not saying that the general goal is bad. In fact, it is a very > important and very difficult research issue. > > That is why I keep repeating
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Computable Contracts for Insurance: Establishing an Insurance-Specific Controlled Natural Language - InsurLE
John F
Sowa
: > Alex, > > I am not saying that the general goal is bad. In fact, it is a very > important and very difficult research issue. > > That is why I keep repeating
7/26/25
John F Sowa
, …
Philip Jackson
5
7/5/25
News about Apple and Amazon
John F
Sowa
Sent: Friday, July 4, 2025 12:05 AM To: ontolog-forum ; CG Subject: [ontolog-forum] News about Apple and Amazon Two items from the newsletter by Anand Sanwal show current
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News about Apple and Amazon
John F
Sowa
Sent: Friday, July 4, 2025 12:05 AM To: ontolog-forum ; CG Subject: [ontolog-forum] News about Apple and Amazon Two items from the newsletter by Anand Sanwal show current
7/5/25
John F Sowa
,
Mike Bergman
6
7/3/25
Elon's fact checker keeps checking him
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Mike, > > You wrote "you tend to have a didactic style that I have noted before > is off-putting." When I'm writing a note to a friendly
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Elon's fact checker keeps checking him
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Mike, > > You wrote "you tend to have a didactic style that I have noted before > is off-putting." When I'm writing a note to a friendly
7/3/25
John F Sowa
, …
Alex Shkotin
28
7/4/25
Apple pulled the plug on AI hype
John, From "All those rules are versions of deduction." I got that you are simply classifying any real particular rule of knowledge
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Apple pulled the plug on AI hype
John, From "All those rules are versions of deduction." I got that you are simply classifying any real particular rule of knowledge
7/4/25
alex.shkotin
, …
John F Sowa
9
6/16/25
Trinity: An Autoformalization System for Verified Superintelligence
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Neven, Alex, Anatoly, > > These systems are very useful and they are getting better. But they are > very, very far from superintelligence. Unfortunately
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Trinity: An Autoformalization System for Verified Superintelligence
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Neven, Alex, Anatoly, > > These systems are very useful and they are getting better. But they are > very, very far from superintelligence. Unfortunately
6/16/25
John F Sowa
,
Ravi Sharma
3
5/10/25
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Following is a note I sent to another email list, and I thought it would > also be useful for the Ontolog and CG lists. In fact, the three links > below are to
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Following is a note I sent to another email list, and I thought it would > also be useful for the Ontolog and CG lists. In fact, the three links > below are to
5/10/25
John F Sowa
,
Alex Shkotin
2
3/20/25
AI agent problems
component is
LLM
is a fact, but what is there is still unknown. My opinion: they almost certainly use some filters for the results issued by
LLM
. This began with the fact that
LLM
began
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AI agent problems
component is
LLM
is a fact, but what is there is still unknown. My opinion: they almost certainly use some filters for the results issued by
LLM
. This began with the fact that
LLM
began
3/20/25
alex.shkotin
, …
David Whitten
21
3/7/25
Formalizing Mechanics
John F
Sowa
: >>> >>>> Alex, >>>> >>>> I agree that any ontology implemented on a digital computer cannot be >>>> informal
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Formalizing Mechanics
John F
Sowa
: >>> >>>> Alex, >>>> >>>> I agree that any ontology implemented on a digital computer cannot be >>>> informal
3/7/25
John F Sowa
, …
Polovina, Simon (BTE)
4
2/28/25
Ontology Summit talk by Majumdar and Sowa
beyond just
LLM
processing. Unlike most people who wrote opinions about DeepSeek, Arun had studied the publications by the DeepSeek developers. His talk is one of the very few presentations
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Ontology Summit talk by Majumdar and Sowa
beyond just
LLM
processing. Unlike most people who wrote opinions about DeepSeek, Arun had studied the publications by the DeepSeek developers. His talk is one of the very few presentations
2/28/25
John F Sowa
, …
Kingsley Idehen
12
2/24/25
Elon Musk's Grok 3
John F
Sowa
wrote: > A hybrid system that combines LLMs with symbolic reasoning provides > the best of both worlds. And it does so with just a tiny fraction of > the amount of Nvidia
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Elon Musk's Grok 3
John F
Sowa
wrote: > A hybrid system that combines LLMs with symbolic reasoning provides > the best of both worlds. And it does so with just a tiny fraction of > the amount of Nvidia
2/24/25
Gary Berg-Cross
, …
Alex Shkotin
11
2/27/25
Daniel Everett on the problem of standardizing vocabularies
approach with
LLM
-based methods for translating languages of any kind -- natural, logical, diagrammatic, multidimensional, and perceptual (as mapped to and from sensory input
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Daniel Everett on the problem of standardizing vocabularies
approach with
LLM
-based methods for translating languages of any kind -- natural, logical, diagrammatic, multidimensional, and perceptual (as mapped to and from sensory input
2/27/25
John F Sowa
2/20/25
Permion technology and applications
to the
LLM
-style of processing. They can use the symbolic methods to detect and eliminate
LLM
errors and hallucinations. John ___________________ Permion Listed in AWS "ICMP
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Permion technology and applications
to the
LLM
-style of processing. They can use the symbolic methods to detect and eliminate
LLM
errors and hallucinations. John ___________________ Permion Listed in AWS "ICMP
2/20/25
gregsharp73
, …
Alex Shkotin
61
2/11/25
Question regarding final slide in Nicola Guarino's presentation
Alex, The data structure of an ADEPT LION instance is a single table in this demo (the fixed schema doesn't require the use of a graph database
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Question regarding final slide in Nicola Guarino's presentation
Alex, The data structure of an ADEPT LION instance is a single table in this demo (the fixed schema doesn't require the use of a graph database
2/11/25
Kingsley Idehen
, …
Michael Denny
18
2/4/25
Latest from the world of LLMs
every current
LLM
system that does not use a symbolic component to detect and evaluate the inevitable errors and hallucinations. Our largest clients (some US gov't agencies)
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Latest from the world of LLMs
every current
LLM
system that does not use a symbolic component to detect and evaluate the inevitable errors and hallucinations. Our largest clients (some US gov't agencies)
2/4/25
John F Sowa
, …
Alex Shkotin
14
1/9/25
Proposal: OWL 3 as an upgrade to OWL 2
, and
LLM
-based services. > My impression is that this type of user-friendly environment and glaring > applications are missing in our community. In my opinion, Protégé and
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Proposal: OWL 3 as an upgrade to OWL 2
, and
LLM
-based services. > My impression is that this type of user-friendly environment and glaring > applications are missing in our community. In my opinion, Protégé and
1/9/25
John F Sowa
, …
Ravi Sharma
7
12/23/24
Khanmigo, AI tutor
number of
LLM
/ChatGPT courses that >> are offered. And, I came away with two conclusions from that writer. >> >> First, there are very few good courses, and the best
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Khanmigo, AI tutor
number of
LLM
/ChatGPT courses that >> are offered. And, I came away with two conclusions from that writer. >> >> First, there are very few good courses, and the best
12/23/24
John F Sowa
11/29/24
Hybrid with LLMs and traditional AI methods
system combines
LLM
technology with traditional AI methods to do the evaluation. This is a hybrid technique that our Permion.ai system uses. I don't know anything more that I read
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Hybrid with LLMs and traditional AI methods
system combines
LLM
technology with traditional AI methods to do the evaluation. This is a hybrid technique that our Permion.ai system uses. I don't know anything more that I read
11/29/24
Igor Toujilov
, …
Kingsley Idehen
53
1/15/25
Design Pattern Ontology
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Mike and Igor, > > I'm glad that you mentioned design patterns. But instead of an > ontology of design patterns, I would say that design patterns
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Design Pattern Ontology
John F
Sowa
wrote: > Mike and Igor, > > I'm glad that you mentioned design patterns. But instead of an > ontology of design patterns, I would say that design patterns
1/15/25
Alex Shkotin
11/20/24
knowledge processing and genAI
John and all, The theme of knowledge processing (KP) is so important. We first need to classify a little what kind of KP we use in science, technology
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knowledge processing and genAI
John and all, The theme of knowledge processing (KP) is so important. We first need to classify a little what kind of KP we use in science, technology
11/20/24