Connectionism vs. AI

[Mitsuharu Hadeishi]

	I'm not sure how important the "equivalence" between NNs and
Turing machines really is, given the fact that the space of all
algorithms is hardly exhaustively searchable for any but the most trivial
of problems.  Obviously NNs impose a particular structure to the space
of algorithms which allows systematic searching, whereas traditional
AI approaches rely on hand-crafted algorithms.  This structure is what
makes co\nectionism important; not what is computable in principle, but
what is computable because we can find the appropriate algorithm(s) to compute it.

Mitsu Hadeishi
Open Mind
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