Prospects for AI as the General Science of Intelligence (1993)
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@MISC{Sloman93prospectsfor,
author = {Aaron Sloman},
title = {Prospects for AI as the General Science of Intelligence},
year = {1993}
}
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Abstract
. Three approaches to the study of mind are distinguished: semanticsbased, phenomena-based and design-based. Requirements for the design-based approach are outlined. It is argued that AI as the design-based approach to the study of mind has a long future, and pronouncements regarding its failure are premature, to say the least. 1. Introduction The death of Artificial Intelligence, or more specifically the failure of the computational approach to the study of mind, is often announced, either by converts to some `new' approach, or by people who don't like the idea of a scientific or mechanistic explanation of how the human mind works. Such announcements are naive insofar as they assume that we already know (a) what can and cannot be explained or modelled in computational terms, and (b) what we are trying to explain or replicate. The first assumption ignores the fact that the study of computation is still in its infancy. The second assumption ignores the depth of our ignorance about the...
