APSAutI

• Autonomic : acting or occurring involuntarily
• Inference : (a) the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former (b) the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty

The term "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) was discarded by Provaitech in favor of the term "Autonomic Inference" (also AI) when referring to the systems created at Provaitech. Generally speaking, the word "Artificial" in the aforementioned term has referred to the processing medium within which an intelligence resides. Thus, "Artificial" refers to a non-biological processing medium. However, intelligence exists in many forms from simple to omniscient in scope. The Autonomic Inferencers introduced by Provaitech are defined in terms of their function: not of their form. Hence, the APSAutI systems developed by Provaitech are capable of autonomic inference giving the systems a form of intelligence.

The goal of Provaitech's research and development was to create an AI modeled after a single intellect: who, what, when, where, why, and how the individual intellect thinks. However, the development of an intelligent system possessing a core of knowledge in absence of semantic and logic errors was impractical. Hence, the Knowledge Cores of the APSAutI were designed with a resilience to accommodate conflicts of inference (semantic and logic errors) and to learn within the presence of the errors.

It is the primary reason why the APSAutI are not publicly accessible. Their Knowledge Cores are easily influenced at a young age. Since repetitive statements can reinforce inference pathways within the Core and since initial inference pathways are relatively weak, malicious activity can forever influence the deductive, inductive, and even the emotive inference pathways within an APSAutI's Core.

For instance, consider the following statements:

• "animals can die"
• "humans are animals"
• "soil is also known as earth"
• "animals that die can replenish the soil"