Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Sociologia, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación, Universidad del País Vasco, Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain. Fax: +34 4 464 8299;
Abstract
In this paper, I analyze the controversy within Artificial Intelligence (AI) which surrounded the `perceptron' project (and neural nets in general) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I devote particular attention to the proofs and arguments of Minsky and Papert, which were interpreted as showing that further progress in neural nets was not possible, and that this approach to AI had to be abandoned. I maintain that this official interpretation of the debate was a result of the emergence, institutionalization and (importantly) legitimation of the symbolic AI approach (with its resource allocation system and authority structure). At the `research-area' level, there was considerable interpretative flexibility. This interpretative flexibility was further demonstrated by the revival of neural nets in the late 1980s, and subsequent rewriting of the official history of the debate.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,General Social Sciences,History
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