Sherlock Holmes and Tchaikovsky Ask: Is Connectionist AI Bad Science?

Selmer Bringsjord
Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180 USA
selmer@rpi.edu http://www.rpi.edu/ brings - David A. Ferrucci
T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
ferrucci@vnet.ibm.com

• A Two-Horse Race?
• The Music Box, The Brain, and Tchaikovsky
• Why COG is Doomed
• References
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