Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Fuzzy Stuff

Fuzzy logic has had great success in operating machinery that is computer operated. For instance, if I write a program to control the thermostat in my home I can set it for ‘cool’. Coming out of winter into summer, 60′F feels cool. Going from summer into Fall 70′ feels cool. I might describe cool as between 50′ and 70′, warm as between 60′ and 80′, cold anything less than 60′ and hot anything over 70′. So the computer doesn’t get it when I say I would like the home to be warm. Should it be 60′, but that is also cool.

Softening and fuzzing the data enables the computer to be able to deal with overlapping or otherwise not clear cut data. Groups of overlapping data are hard coded into software along with rules for fuzzying it.