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My understanding is that there was a period of time where computer science was very excited about fuzzy logic, because it was thought it would prove to be more
by jerf 3y ago
My understanding is that there was a period of time where computer science was very excited about fuzzy logic, because it was thought it would prove to be more powerful than conventional logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
However, it was demonstrated that it had no additional power over conventional logic, so interest faded as quickly as it rose. Which is not to say it is useless, but that rather than a revolution it became just another tool in the belt. It can be more convenient to formulate certain systems in fuzzy logic rather than binary logic, but it doesn't really create new possibilities. And programmers in the trenches were doing this sort of thing already anyhow, less formally, but generally effectively.
It was weird how loud it was for sure. New forms of logic don't generally get the red carpet treatment like that.
I don't know why a rice cooker would particularly care about "fuzzy logic" other than a bizarre marketing spandrel [1].
[1]: Since this seems an obscure usage of an already-obscure term: https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/what-are-spandrels.html https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/what-are-spandrels....
- jbverschoor 3y agoControl theory is very interesting and in my opinion more relevant than before
- avidiax 3y agoFuzzy logic sounds like it has been superseded by neural networks. It has much the same principle, i.e. gates/neurons that are tuned to provide a non-digital output. But with fuzzy logic, presumably the parameters and network are hand tuned.
- sunshowers 3y agoI don't think "superseded" is the right word, in the same way that ordinary relativity [1] hasn't been superseded by special or general relativity. Fuzzy logic is a more straightforward model that works well enough here, so why throw in the additional complexity and illegibility of neural nets? [1] Also known as "classical mechanics". Despite widespread belief that relativity is a 20th century idea, the first person to describe relativity wasn't Einstein -- it was Galileo. Einstein himself saw his work on relativity as extending what Galileo had done.