Got questions or answers about data mining, statistical inference, machine learning, neural networks, clustering, support vector machines, genetic algorithms, heuristics and so on?
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Not that that's a bad thing. Competition is good, and the difference may evolve to be nothing more than culture, or focus or whatever. I mean, HN is similar to certain reddit sub-reddits (or combinations thereof) such as /r/programming and /r/startups. But there's room for both. Same deal, IMO, with AI / Machine Learning / Data Mining / etc. related Q&A sites.
Oh, and never mind that there are multiple subreddits devoted to these topics as well! /r/machinelearning, /r/artificial, /r/sysor, etc. jump to mind.
Let the market sort it out.
It would be nice if this was separated out into "old-fashioned" AI (data mining, statistical inference, machine learning, etc) and bio-inspired technologies (genetic algorithms, cellular automata, neural networks - although the latter may be a grey area).
Alternatively, a better name than "Artificial Intelligence" should have been used for the site. Probably too late now though..
> This view is common in modern cognitive psychology and is presumed by theorists of evolutionary psychology.
Only among a small besieged minority-- the majority have moved on to neurocognitive research.
>and is presumed by theorists of evolutionary psychology
That's just straight-up wrong. Perhaps there's some theorist who buys into it, but it's certainly not common.
As for bio-inspired techniques-- why should their point of inspiration be anything but a footnote? Genetic algorithms are just one instance of a stochastic search algorithm (there are many others), cellular automata can be pretty much anything, and so can neural networks (depending on whether you include the dozens of models more esoteric than multilayer perceptrons).