Intelligence Without Reason

Computers and Thought are the two categories that together defi ne Artifi cial Intelligence as a discipline. It is generally accepted that work in Artifi cial Intelligence over the last thirty years has had a strong influence on aspects of computer architectures. In this paper we also make the converse claim; that the state of computer architecture has been a strong influence on our models of thought. The Von Neumann model of computation has lead Artifi cial Intelligence in particular directions. Intelligence in biological systems is completely different. Recent work in behavior-based Artifi cial Intelligence has produced new models of intelligence that are much closer in spirit to biological systems. The non-Von Neumann computational models they use share many characteristics with biological computation.
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