[comp.ai.neural-nets] Dreyfus on connectionism

g451252772ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000005410;0;327;142;) (01/31/88)

Would anyone who attended S. Dreyfus' public talk on connectionism at 
U.C. Berkeley (Friday, 1/29) give a summary?  

S. and H. Dreyfus (brothers) are Berkeley's "loyal opposition" to AI work
in the 'GOFAI' tradition (Haugeland's Good Old-Fashioned AI, based on
symbolic/logical manipulations).  Their assessment of the neural net
pre-symbolic paradigm should have been interesting.

thanks!


Ron Goldthwaite / UC Davis, Psychology and Animal Behavior
'Economics is a branch of ethics, pretending to be a science; 
 ethology is a science, pretending relevance to ethics.'

wcalvin@well.UUCP (William Calvin) (02/07/88)

See Winter 1988 issue of DAEDALUS, Dreyfus and Dreyfus article entitled
"Making a mind versus modeling the brain:  AI back at a branchpoint".
		William H. Calvin
		University of Washington NJ-15, Seattle WA 98195
		   wcalvin@well.uucp    206/328-1192