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From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Re: standardization (Re: Lisp versus C++ for AI. software)
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In article <325AF986.606C@sybase.com> George Van Treeck <treeck@sybase.com> writes:

> 
> William Paul Vrotney wrote:
> > 
> > STL is *not* good at all for doing AI software.  There are no symbols, no
> > singly liked lists, no conses, and nothing for building heterogeneous
> > structures.
> 
> Symbols, linked lists, consing, etc. are a wasted effort by people
> who know little about neuropsych and figure they could use
> introspection to deduce and brain functions.  All programs that
> use such methods have been complete failures at such simple things
> as recognizing a hand written characters, voice recognition, etc.
> I haven't seen any interesting software written in a symbol
> processing language in last 7 years.
> 
> The only software (and hardware) that has ever had any success at
> all with these "intellegence" problems are those that emulate
> neural structures to some degree.  And NONE of that software
> does it "symbolically."  That software is number crunching
> software -- generally written in a language like C or C++.

I was not talking about brain functions.  I just have a need to implement
basic AI algorithms.  Perhaps you should write a book to help some of us
understand how we can replace all AI algorithms with neural nets.


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William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
