granularity (knowledge representation)

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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We may wish to express knowledge at different levels of granularity, for example to talk about animals in general, dogs in particukar or even specific breeds or individual dogs we know.

Used in Chap. 2: page 12