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But even with all this activity, no one has taken up the pursuit of digital intelligence with as much audacity or ambition as Lenat and Brooks. Their parallel quests to build what may be the world's first convincingly humanlike computer programs have been compared to the dramatic 1911 Amundsen...
Cog, on the other hand, embodies the principles of AI's breakaway faction, the so-called bottom-up school. Inspired more by biological structures than by logical ones, the bottom-uppers don't bother trying to write down the rules of thought. Instead they try to conjure thought up by...
Lenat might say the same, though for less flattering reasons. As far as he's concerned, Brooks is headed down a blind alley, trying futilely to retrace evolution's steps. The simple tricks that made Brooks' earlier, insectlike robots work will never "scale up" to the complexity of human-level...
Brooks isn't much kinder about Lenat's work. "I don't think [CYC] can ever have a deep experience of the world," he sniffs, pointing out that without sensory input, the program's knowledge can never really amount to more than an abstract network of symbols.
There might be a market for inferential power like that, especially if it could be yoked to some of the autonomous semi-intelligent agents that are already buzzing around on the Internet. But Lenat isn't the only researcher poised to bring real intelligence to intelligent agents. If anybody is...