Units of Knowledge

Units of Knowledge

Any agent, in order to collect knowledge, must store it in some units.

What is knowledge? The source of knowledge is information. Information is a fact if it can be used only once and is no longer needed, and knowledge if it is used many times and is a useful function or meaning.

Thus, a unit of knowledge is one meaning - and any information system, in order to store knowledge, must store these meanings in a structured relational form.

In a language model, a unit of knowledge is a record - SourceTerm, TargetTerm, Subject (1 - General - a most frequently used meaning for a list of meanings, 2 - Options - additional meanings).

So, it perfectly fits when it comes to personal development for studying new languages or special education for acquiring academic vocabulary.

https://michaelmolin.substack.com/p/units-of-knowledge

References:

How to get an AGI solution - make a model of human memory with a mechanism of reconsolidation - my wishlist for 2025 - https://michaelmolin.substack.com/p/how-to-get-an-agi-solution-make-a