BOOK REVIEW: Genius Makers, by Cade Metz the tribal war in AI – Business Day

A guide to an intellectual counter-revolution that is already transforming the world

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01 April 2021 - 05:10 John Thornhill

It may not be on the level of the Montagues and the Capulets, or the Sharks and the Jets, but in the world of geeks the rivalry is about as intense as it gets. For decades, two competing tribes of artificial intelligence (AI) experts have been furiously duelling with each other in research labs and conference halls around the world. But rather than swords or switchblades, they have wielded nothing more threatening than mathematical models and computer code.

On one side, the connectionist tribe believes that computers can learn behaviour in the same way as humans do, by processing a vast array of interconnected calculations. On the other, the symbolists argue that machines can only follow discrete rules. The machines instructions are contained in specific symbols, such as digits and letters...

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