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Re:Is There a Smarter Path to Artificial Intelligence? Some ... by wslh on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:17AM (#17363949)
I think this is the perspective the "Society of the Mind" book by Marvin Minsky took at their time. When a software like Mathematica makes symbolic operations it is doing AI, the same for things like the Z3 solver.
Re:Is There a Smarter Path to Artificial Intelligence? Some ... by jryanwelsh on Monday July 02, 2018 @05:55PM (#17445678)
Very astute. Some folks here at Kyndi used to work with Minsky. One of our favorite quotes is: "what magical trick makes us intelligence? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems form our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle." What we see now in AI/ML is not diversity, but rather attempts at the single perfect principle. We don't believe that is the path forward. Rather, you need to figure out how to tightly couple different approaches (e.g., symbolic and statistical learning approaches) to form a more powerful, flexible, and explainable model of AI.