on the rationalist foundations of AI
Jul. 15th, 2005 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslOk, I can be too much of a rationalist to live my life properly, but does this make me a bad scientist/philosopher?
Winograd, for one, has been critical of rationalistic (reductionistic?) tendencies in AI.
from William J Clancy - Practice Cannot be Reduced to Theory: Knowledge, Representations, and Change in the Workplace:
These seem like the philosophical foundation for my views about AI & intelligence in general.
Since they've nailed down my view, I guess I really should read Winograd to see if they can change my mind.
Btw, let me hypothesize that "neat" vs "scruffy" orientation correlates with political opinion.
Right-Wing AI:
* rationalist
* truth-conservative
Left-Wing AI:
* evolving
* non-monotonic
* connectionist
* "situated cognition"/"embodied cognition"
Winograd, for one, has been critical of rationalistic (reductionistic?) tendencies in AI.
from William J Clancy - Practice Cannot be Reduced to Theory: Knowledge, Representations, and Change in the Workplace:
Fig. 1. Rationalist view of knowledge and representations
These seem like the philosophical foundation for my views about AI & intelligence in general.
Since they've nailed down my view, I guess I really should read Winograd to see if they can change my mind.
Btw, let me hypothesize that "neat" vs "scruffy" orientation correlates with political opinion.
Right-Wing AI:
* rationalist
* truth-conservative
Left-Wing AI:
* evolving
* non-monotonic
* connectionist
* "situated cognition"/"embodied cognition"