There were others thinking of this approach in AI before this guy:<p>&quot;The idea for a search engine that maps associations came to Franks by way of his three young children. He noticed how each child processed information by taking two pieces of knowledge, combining them, and coming up with something new. Franks wondered whether he could get a computer to do the same thing&quot; From:<p>A Search Engine that Thinks, Almost
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