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- Endgadget
- 2021
- Endgadget
- 2021
- Endgadget
- 2021
Hitting the Books: The Brooksian revolution that led to rational robots
Article is an excerpt from book about the history of AI and the shift in AI research in 1990s from knowledge-based to context-based approaches to artificial intelligence.
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The transformative power of video games: Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games-
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- Engadget
- 2021
- Engadget
- 2021
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- 10 min
- Engadget
- 2021
Hitting the Books: The Brooksian revolution that led to rational robots
This article provides an excerpt from a book detailing the “Brooksian Revolution,” a movement in the 1980s pressing the idea that the “intelligence” of AI should start from a foundation of acute awareness of its environment, rather than “typical” indicators of intelligence such as pure logic or problem solving. By principle, a reasoning machine-learning loop that operates off of a one-time perception of its environment is inherently disconnected from its environment.
Why is an environment important to cognition, both that of humans and machines? Will robots ever be able to abstract the world, or model it, in the same way that the human brain can? Are there dangers to robots being strictly “rational” and decoupled from their environments? Are there dangers to robots being too connected to their environments?