Stephen Downes

This is a useful article in that it fulfills its stated purpose: it gives the reader a good description of what a knowledge base looks like and how each element is used to make the AI that uses it more responsive and accurate. But what struck me as I read it is that it offers a good analogy to a human's knowledge base - there is the set of guides, conventions and rules that "mirrors what you';d find in a senior employee's mental toolkit." There's the data in a database. There are policy and procedure manuals. And then there is the semi-structured knowledge equivalent to a knowledge wiki or even a personal library. Each person's knowledge base is unique, and each has their own 'data moat' - the distinctive knowledge that gives them value in the workplace. Via Miguel Guhlin.