The Age of Symbolic AI
Why early AI believed logic was intelligence, and why that confidence was both justified and catastrophically wrong.
This is Chapter 2 of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence.
“We propose that a 2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence be carried out… the conjecture is that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.” — McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, Shan…
