GOFAI mostly recapitulated logical positivism, because the lessons of its failure were lost. Contemporary rationalism mostly recapitulates the errors of 1980s AI, because the lessons of its failures were lost.https://twitter.com/jonathanstray/status/1006951967653064704 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
I do think we learned new things from the failure of GOFAI as opposed to previous failures. Positivists talked a big game about knowledge representation, but there was never an applied project like CYC. Also we got all kinds of CS results this time around (theorem provers etc.)
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Yes, this is true. OTOH, I think the field founders should have seen the problems from the outset by learning from LP’s failures. I don’t know if they were unaware of those, or thought they had a way around. My guess is ignorance but I’m tempered to look harder at the history.
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You're bang on that the lessons of LP's failure were lost. I have a deep interest, but still only scraps of explanations of what went wrong. The usual accounts seem to somehow... miss the point. Often, they're too anti-rationalist for my taste.
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Yes, on all counts. I’m planning to do a better job than I have been able to find, albeit reluctantly because it’s just as background to presenting an alternative. It’s disappointing that afaict there’s no very good history.
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