Chapter 11: The Great Debate: Symbolic or Analog Logic

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This chapter discusses the history of artificial intelligence, focusing on the development of robots and the two primary approaches to programming them: analog logic and symbolic logic. The excerpt highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches, showcasing the early attempts at creating robots that could perceive their environment and act autonomously. It also provides a timeline of key developments in robotics, including the creation of early robots which exemplified the use of analog logic. It contrasts these with later robots like Freddy and Shakey, which exemplified the use of symbolic logic. The chapter then discusses the "Nouvelle AI" movement, a resurgence of analog logic in the 1980s, and explains why this approach eventually fell out of favor. The author concludes by explaining why symbolic logic remains the dominant approach in robotics today.

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