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itecture by starting with a useful application like a search engine or conversational agent, and extending its common sense abilities over time. But Ben Kuipers worried that choosing too specific an application would lead to what happened to most previous projects-- someone discovers some set of ad hoc trick
987) as an effort to eliminate and unify components rather than to accumulate and diversify them, as in the Minsky- Sloman proposals. Ashwin Ram and Larry Birnbaum both pointed out that despite the agreement over the architectural proposals it was still not clear what the particular components of the architectu
itecture by starting with a useful application like a search engine or conversational agent, and extending its common sense abilities over time. But Ben Kuipers worried that choosing too specific an application would lead to what happened to most previous projects— someone discovers some set of ad hoc tricks
1987) as an effort to eliminate and unify components rather than to accumulate and diversify them, as in the Minsky- Slam= proposals. Ashwin Ram and Larry Birnbaum both pointed out that despite the agreement over the architectural proposals it was still not clear what the particular components of the architectu
itecture by starting with a useful application like a search engine or conversational agent, and extending its common sense abilities over time. But Ben Kuipers worried that choosing too specific an application would lead to what happened to most previous projects-- someone discovers some set of ad hoc trick
&Mehl, Note (I.) This meeting was held in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on April 14-16, 2002. The meeting included the following participants: Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University), Ken Forbus (Northwestern University), Ben Kuipers (University of Texas at Austin),,las Lanai (Cycorp), Henry Lieberman (
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