The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

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Summary: The Cognitive Computer by Schank and Childers
Review: The authors explain how artificial intelligence involves seeing
something familiar in a new light. The challenge is to emulate
scripts built up over time and experience. There are significant
problems with programs which do not change as the result of
new knowledge. In addition, there are problems in computer
learning from failure. In practice, it is impossible to
articulate every possible error condition. Even if the knowledge
engineer could articulate every possible error, the next problem
is programming the computer system to do a multiplicity of
validations. Too many validations built into a system, can cause
the throughput to degrade substantially . When throughput
suffers, the overall efficiency of the system collapses.
This work is an important advance in artificial intelligence and
expert systems.