[Tyler]

A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
1 January 2014, 4:48 pm

Subsymbolic approaches were pioneered in the late 1950s and 1960s, but lay fallow for years because they initially seemed to generate worse results than symbolic approaches. ... For certain classes of problems, modern subsymbolic approaches have proved far more generalizable and ubiquitous than any previous symbolic approach to the same problems. This success speaks to the advantage of not worrying about whether a computer “knows” or “understands” the problem it is working on.Nautilus (8)  Dec 19 2013   (from AL Daily)Link.

Source: AI in the News

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