From: Francois-Rene Rideau (fare@tunes.org)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 04:14:15 MDT
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> The only comparable error I can bring to mind is Minsky and
> Papert killing off the entire field of neural networks,
Hum. I admit I'm rather ignorant about this particular field,
yet that your assertion raised my interest. Do you have pointers
to documents about what happened? By Minsky, I only read
"The society of mind", which I thought was a challenging vision
of how neural networks could work, in an abstract way.
Yours freely,
[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
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