I love the idea of cognitive AI. I've dabbled with OpenCog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog , and in my youth I read "Artificial General Intelligence (2005)" by Ben Goertzel and I was really convinced.
But it seems like... cognitive AI hasn't paid off? Big & deep Neural Nets are the type of ML/AI that are achieving milestones in learning, gameplay and tasks.
If someone has a strong case to make for cognitive programming, I'd love to hear it. But right now it seems like it's a heuristics-based system that's destined to lose to NNs.
(And before the nitpickers arrive, I totally grant that using heuristics for toy robots makes sense, and is a good way to expose people to programming.)
But it seems like... cognitive AI hasn't paid off? Big & deep Neural Nets are the type of ML/AI that are achieving milestones in learning, gameplay and tasks.
If someone has a strong case to make for cognitive programming, I'd love to hear it. But right now it seems like it's a heuristics-based system that's destined to lose to NNs.
(And before the nitpickers arrive, I totally grant that using heuristics for toy robots makes sense, and is a good way to expose people to programming.)