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Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Artificial intelligence started with programmed computers, where programmers would manually program human expert knowledge into the systems. In sharp contrast, today's artificial neural networks – deep learning – are able to learn from experience, and perform at human-like levels of perceptual categorization, language production, and other cognitive abilities at h. This difference has been portrayed as roughly parallel to the philosophical divide between rationalists or nativists on the one hand, and empiricists on the other. In From Deep Learning to Rational Machines (Oxford UP, 2024)…
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