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meric on July 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of...

"It's like saying airplanes don't properly explain flight because they don't replicate how birds do it."

The analogy doesn't hold. We don't want planes to fly like birds, but we may want machines to thinking like humans.

eyko on July 26, 2012 [–]

Also, the statistical approach would be to imitate flying creatures until we can fly, rather than understanding aerodynamics in order to create "vessels that float".

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