Late 80's and 90's had the 'nouvelle AI' movement that argued embodiment was required for grounding the system into the shared world model. Without it symbols would be ungrounded and never achieve open world consistency.
So unlike their knowledge system predecessors, a bit derogatory refered to as GOFAI (good old fashioned AI), nAI hawked back to cybernetics and multi layered dynamical systems rather than having explicit internal symbolic models. Braitenberg rather than blocksworld so to speak.
Seems like we are back for another turn of the wheel in this aspect.
So unlike their knowledge system predecessors, a bit derogatory refered to as GOFAI (good old fashioned AI), nAI hawked back to cybernetics and multi layered dynamical systems rather than having explicit internal symbolic models. Braitenberg rather than blocksworld so to speak.
Seems like we are back for another turn of the wheel in this aspect.