I have read McClelland and Rumelhart first ~20 years ago and it has a prominent place in my book shelf. I havn’t been able to actively work in AI but I have followed the field. I put some hopes in integrated connectionist symbolic systems and was rewarded with deep neural networks lately. I think that every advanced system will need some non-symbolic approach to integrate reality. I don’t know whether it will be NNs or some other statistical means. And the really tricky part will be to figure out how to pre-wire it such that it ‘does what it should’. I think a lot will be learned how the same is realized in the human brain.
I have read McClelland and Rumelhart first ~20 years ago and it has a prominent place in my book shelf. I havn’t been able to actively work in AI but I have followed the field. I put some hopes in integrated connectionist symbolic systems and was rewarded with deep neural networks lately. I think that every advanced system will need some non-symbolic approach to integrate reality. I don’t know whether it will be NNs or some other statistical means. And the really tricky part will be to figure out how to pre-wire it such that it ‘does what it should’. I think a lot will be learned how the same is realized in the human brain.