The Eric Normand Podcast Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search
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Jan 10, 2022 AI Snips
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Newell's Human-Centric AI Goal
- Allen Newell aimed to simulate human problem solving to understand the cognitive architecture of the human mind.
- He valued programs that mirrored human methods over those that merely outperformed humans.
Simon's Nobel Insight on Satisficing
- Herbert Simon won a Nobel Prize for recognizing humans "satisfice" rather than optimize.
- People often choose the first workable option instead of the perfect one due to limited processing ability.
Computer Science as Empirical Science
- Computer science is an empirical discipline where building new machines and programs acts as experiments in nature.
- Observing behavior of these machines reveals new phenomena and advances understanding.