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PAYING ONES' DUES

Not only are human brains poor at number crunching, but so are neural networks.

There is one tradition in  AI which rightly eschews human 'intelligence' as it
spontaneously manifests  itself  (the GOFAI  bunch), but there are a new group
who seem to me to have failed to appreciate  that psychology  since the  1960s
has just been describing  (empirically investigating)  the oddities of a  very
badly designed computer system.

In  all  seriousness, I  think  Frege's work in  1879 was a watershed  in  the
development  of human  intellectual development  (actually, I'm  not  alone in 
that :).......)..Maybe one has to work in an applied area to fully appreciate
how  much that man contributed.......as an alternative, the initially mystical
ideas of Popper (the Objective World 3) will do as an approximation. But  then
again, Husserl wasn't far off the mark either.

Alas, these days, I think we are all too busy to think about what anyone says.
(see 'Fragments of Behaviour' 1-9)
-- 
David Longley
