Parallel distributed processing (as well as “connectionism”) is just an early name for the line of work that was eventually rebranded as “deep learning”. They’re the same research program.
But it’s also an entire School of Thought in Cognitive Science. I feel like DL is the method, but without the understanding that these are based on well-thoughtout, mechanistic rules for how cognition fundamentally works, building potentially toward a unified theory of cognition and behaviour.
Parallel distributed processing (as well as “connectionism”) is just an early name for the line of work that was eventually rebranded as “deep learning”. They’re the same research program.
But it’s also an entire School of Thought in Cognitive Science. I feel like DL is the method, but without the understanding that these are based on well-thoughtout, mechanistic rules for how cognition fundamentally works, building potentially toward a unified theory of cognition and behaviour.
What do you think someone who knows about PDP knows that someone with a good knowledge of DL doesn’t?
And why would it be useful?