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I became aware of Fr. Aloysius Hacker and his unique approach to AI through a research report in an old AISB Quarterly, the newsletter of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. A page long, the report described a robot billiards player. It dismissed object recognition and tracking in one paragraph. The rest of the page, it devoted in great and reassuring detail to the workings of an integer-equality predicate used in counting balls. Which makes sense, because why say much about what you're not confident of? Readers want stuff they can trust. Then yesterday, I came across Fr. Hacker again, in The Researcher's Bible (1): thirteen pages of excellent advice to research students, in which Fr. Hacker demonstrates how to define the argument to be advanced by a research paper. So I decided to search out AISB's online articles by Fr. Hacker, and here they are. As he asks in one article, why specify, modularise, or test? To someone of your ability, suggesting you need such help is an insult.
November 15, 2009
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