Symbolic Versus Connectionist: Rules or Patterns
Is thought the manipulation of symbols or the settling of a network? Two traditions answer differently, one prizing explicit rules, the other emergent pattern.
Is thought the manipulation of symbols or the settling of a network? Two traditions answer differently, one prizing explicit rules, the other emergent pattern.
That two things move together does not mean one moves the other.
Again and again, the elaborate hand-built method loses to the simple method that scales.
Make a system larger, feed it more, and something changes in kind, not just degree.
A system can be accurate and still be opaque.
Ask precisely for the wrong thing and you will receive it.
We build systems to pursue objectives, but our true wishes exceed what we can write down.
Act on what you know, or seek what you don't? Every agent that learns from its choices faces this fork.
What is learned in one place can pay off in another.