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- From: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI Winter
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.200143.8844@erg.sri.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 20:01:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.125825.7628@csc.ti.com> <1992Aug28.191729.105759@ua1ix.ua.edu>
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- Reply-To: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
- Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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- In article <1992Aug28.191729.105759@ua1ix.ua.edu>, rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu
- (Ron Sun) writes:
- |>In article <1992Aug28.125825.7628@csc.ti.com> thrift@ra.csc.ti.com
- (Phil Thrift) writes:
- |>>knowledge-based approaches are declining, learning-based approaches
- |>>are on the upswing (see the latest addition of Winston's AI text).
- |>
- |>Although interesting, this thing is no longer AI: it has nothing to do
- |>with the original grand goal of understanding intelligence and cognition.
-
- Since when is machine learning not AI? I find it hard to believe that's
- what you're saying; perhaps you could clarify. (Possibly your point is that
- learning *alone* isn't "complete AI"? But then neither is knowledge
- representation and inference.)
-
- Marie desJardins
- marie@erg.sri.com
-