Fewer epistemological challenges for connectionism

  • Authors:
  • Artur S. d'Avila Garcez

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computing School of Informatics, City University London, UK

  • Venue:
  • CiE'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computability in Europe: new Computational Paradigms
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Seventeen years ago, John McCarthy wrote the note Epistemological challenges for connectionism as a response to Paul Smolensky's paper On the proper treatment of connectionism. I will discuss the extent to which the four key challenges put forward by McCarthy have been solved, and what are the new challenges ahead. I argue that there are fewer epistemological challenges for connectionism, but progress has been slow. Nevertheless, there is now strong indication that neural-symbolic integration can provide effective systems of expressive reasoning and robust learning due to the recent developments in the field.