Epstein Secrets

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

of human-level commonsense reasoning. After a good deal of argument, several participants converged upon a vision from The Diamond Age, a novel by Nell Stephenson. That novel envisioned an "intelligent book"--The Young Ladies Illustrated Primer--that, when given to a young girl, would immediately bond with her

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

of human-level commonsense reasoning. After a good deal of argument, several participants converged upon a vision from The Diamond Age, a novel by Nell Stephenson. That novel envisioned an "intelligent book"—The Young Ladies Illustrated Primer—that, when given to a young girl, would immediately bond with her a

&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 (

of human-level commonsense reasoning. After a good deal of argument, several participants converged upon a vision from The Diamond Age, a novel by Nell Stephenson. That novel envisioned an "intelligent book"--The Young Ladies Illustrated Primer--that, when given to a young girl, would immediately bond with her