“In AI there were these two schools of thought that were competing and butting heads politically and financially. There’s the school of thought that is top-down, logic, programming, and search approach, and then there is the machine learning approach.
The machine learning approach says, “Forget about programming robots, forget about programming AI, you just make it learn, and it will figure out everything on its own from data.” The other school of thought says, “We sit down, write algorithms, and program the robot to do what it needs to do.””
The Last Frontiers of AI: Can Scientists Design Creativity and Self-Awareness?
http://singularityhub.com/2016/04/20/the-last-frontiers-of-ai-can-scientists-design-creativity-and-self-awareness/
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The machine learning approach says, “Forget about programming robots, forget about programming AI, you just make it learn, and it will figure out everything on its own from data.” The other school of thought says, “We sit down, write algorithms, and program the robot to do what it needs to do.””
The Last Frontiers of AI: Can Scientists Design Creativity and Self-Awareness?
http://singularityhub.com/2016/04/20/the-last-frontiers-of-ai-can-scientists-design-creativity-and-self-awareness/
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