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From: krulwich-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Krulwich)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Cognitive AI vs Expert Systems (was Re: Me, Karl, Stephen, Gilbert)
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Date: 17 Jun 88 01:17:03 GMT
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In article <19880615061536.5.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> 
dg1v+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (David Greene) writes:
>I'm not advocating Mr. Cockton's views, but the limited literature breadth in
>many AI papers *is* self-defeating.  For example, until very recently, few
>expert system papers acknowledged the results of 20+ years of psychology
>research on Judgement and Decision Making.

This says something about expert systems papers, not about papers discussing
serious attempts at modelling intelligence.  It is wrong to assume (as both
you and Mr. Cockton are) that the expert system work typical of the business
world (in other words, applications programs) is at all similar to work done
by researchers investigating serious intelligence.  (See work on case based
reasoning, explanation based learning, expectation based processing, plan
transformation, and constraint based reasoning, to name a few areas.)


Bruce Krulwich

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