meta-knowledge (expert system)

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Ideally an expert system would have meta-knowledge about its own operation. This could allow it to shift reasooing modes depending on the stuation, just as a human might, but this is rare. In principle, good meta-knowledge can also be used to help explainable AI, although this is more likely to be hard coded.

Used in Chap. 18: pages 295, 297