Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in Machine Learning

During the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, which some consider to be the birthplace of AI research, the problem of artificial intelligence was posed as an attempt ‘to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.’1 Here the link between symbolic …

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