From: Noam Chomsky To: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> CC: ' Subject: RE: Fwd: Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:48:53 +0000 Could be a fascinating discussion. Some time between your trips to Africa and elsewhere? When's a possible time. Will check with Bob too. Noam From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 8:18 AM To: Noam Chomsky < > Subject: Re: Fwd: the issue of modeling requires mathematics before engineering or at least along side it. i spent the day with gromov yesterday, He s come around on a great many issues and you guys see many things alike. I hope to brign him to cambridge. and you danny hills. berwick , martin he and I can spend some time together. Ill bring the deli. On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Noam Chomsky > wrote: we were very pleased that you could stop by — on your way to Senegal! That's impressive. Valeria enjoyed it very much as well, and it seemed to have a good effect. She was a lot better today. We even went out for a walk for the first time. Don't entirely follow what you say below. About AI, the field has two parts. One is basically engineering: let's construct a driverless car, a robot that can clean the house, etc. The other is basically science: let's try to discover how the human mind works, adopting a standard procedure of constructing models, and since we're thinking of the mind as basically a computational system, computational models. Normal science. I have never seen any difference between the kind of work that I do — and Bob, and quite a few others — and the second kind of Al, which has pretty much withered on the vine as resources are poured into the first kind — which is doubtless of considerable importance, as engineering generally is. So it's not really clear to me what is at stake. Noam From: jeffrey E. imailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 3:55 PM To: Noam Chomsky c > Subject: Fwd: Forwarded message From: jeffrey E. <I