From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 12:18 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Fwd: the issue of modeling requires mathematics bef=re engineering or at least along side it. i spent =he day with gromov yesterday, He s come around on a grea= many issues and you guys see many things alike. I hope to bri=n him to cambridge. and you danny hills. berwick , martin he a=d I can spend some time together. III bring the deli. On Sun, O=t 25, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Noam Chomsky wrot=: We were very pleased that you could s=op by — on your way to Senegal! That's impressive.=C2 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 wal= for the first time. Don't entirely follow what yo= say below. About AI, the field has two parts. One is basicall= engineering: let's construct a driverless car, a robot that can clean the house, etc. The other is basically science: let's =ry to discover how the human mind works, adopting a standard procedure of =onstructing models, and since we're thinking of the mind as basica=ly a computational system, computational models. Normal science. I have never seen any difference betw=en the kind of work that I do — and Bob, and quite a few others =E2 and the second kind of AI, 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 m= what is at stake. Noam From: jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 3:55 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Fwd: Forwarded =essage EFTA_R1_01600571 EFTA02483416