ISSN:
1435-5655
Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence
;
checker program
;
chess
;
cognitivism
;
connectionism
;
expertise
;
expert systems
;
heuristic knowledge
;
phenomenology
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Physical Symbol System
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Plato
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skill acquisition
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Socrates
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
Notes:
Abstract Artificial Intelligence, and the cognitivist view of mind on which it is based, represent the last stage of the rationalist tradition in philosophy. This tradition begins when Socrates assumes that intelligence is based on principles and when Plato adds the requirement that these principles must be strict rules, not based on taken-for-granted background understanding. This philosophical position, refined by Hobbes, Descartes and Leibniz, is finally converted into a research program by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell. That research program is now in trouble, so we must return to its source and question Socrates' assumption that intelligence consists in solving problems by following rules, and that one acquires the necessary rules by abstracting them from specific cases. A phenomenological description of skill acquisition suggests that the acquisition of expertise moves in just the opposite direction: from abstract rules to particular cases. This description of expertise accounts for the difficulties that have confronted AI for the last decade.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01891374
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