What Is Neat And Scruffy Artificial Intelligence?

Two different approaches to AI… which one wins?

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Many words are thrown around describing Artificial Intelligence – automation, robots, machine intelligence, narrow AI, general AI… A term you most likely HAVE not heard yet is Neat and Scruffy.

Team Neat vs. Team Scruffy

Neat and Scruffy are labels for two different competing school of thoughts. Neat believes solutions should be clear, elegant, and provably correct. Scruffies believe intelligence is too complicated to be slotted into neat and tidy bento boxes.

Inside The Mind Of A Neat

Neats are everything logical – statistics, results, and algorithms. They like color-in-the-lines methods.

How Scruffies Like To Do Things

Scruffies like to get down and dirty. They will experiment and tweak until they see the behavior they want. Scruffies embrace “fuzzier,” more diverse, and more ambiguous methods to create results.

Word Up:

Why divide ourselves and limit research to one path? We agree with MIT AI researcher Marvin Minsky that there are countless wonders yet to be discovered by pursuing and combining multiple AI approaches.

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