Drew McDermott on AI
2 quotes from Drew McDermott on the wall, 1976, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include ACM SIGART Newsletter.
McDermott was a researcher at the MIT AI Lab. He wrote this critique of his own field's habits, the essay "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity", for the SIGART Newsletter, issue 57, in April 1976.
ACM SIGART NewsletterArtificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
A particularly stupid program to solve puzzles
McDermott, of the MIT AI Lab, was discussing what he called wishful mnemonics, taking Newell and Simon's General Problem Solver as his example. SIGART Newsletter, April 1976.
ACM SIGART NewsletterArtificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
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One of us will have to eat our words
Rodney A. Brooks, roboticist at the MIT AI Lab, in Working Paper 303 of September 1987, a reply to Drew McDermott comparing traditional AI planning with his reflexive subsumption architectures for real robots.