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Machine Learning in Artificial Intelligence This assignment will explore some traditional philosophical problems surrounding induction, and use them to consider the application of inductive programming techniques in Artificial Intelligence. It will conclude that the implementation on machines have been encouraging, but that the nature of induction itself will prevent a completely succeful... Show the broad problems underpinning induction, from Humean analysis, to more modern considerations of probability and weighting. `Let us begin with a definition. Induction can be broadly defined as a 'rational' process where, from premises about some things of a certain kind, a conclusion is drawn about some, or all, of the remaining things of that kind. Philosophically it has its history in Hume's exploration of the unreliability of causality. `Hume (1737) derived his notion of causality from a theory that the mind consisted of nothing but perceptions, containing impressions (sensations, emotions) and ideas (thoughts). He posited that reasoning consists...

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