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I think Norvig is a smart person, I enjoy his books, papers and jupyter notebooks, but I always thought he was pretty clueless regarding AI, as history indeed demonstrated. That's …

Interest in neural networks was renewed with Werbos's (1975) backpropagation algorithm. There was continued progress in ANNs all this time. I think the aversion to ANNs during the …

We seem to be re-enacting the Symbolic vs Connectionist AI debate of the 80s, poorly. All I'm saying is, Norvig should have been more humble and included a chapter or two about ANN…

As opposed to the AI techniques taught in the AIMA book (KR and logic reasoning), which had plateau'ed in the 70s...? Norvig had to be pretty clueless to decide ANNs are such a dea…

To remind people: Yann LeCun worked on artificial neural networks (ANN) during the period where they were actively shunned by most of the scientific community. You could barely pub…