Nouvelle AI
AI approach prioritizing behavior-based, bottom-up robot control over symbolic reasoning, challenging classical AI assumptions.
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Rodney Brooks Publishes 'Elephants Don't Play Chess', Articulating Nouvelle AI
In 1990, Rodney Brooks of MIT published 'Elephants Don't Play Chess' in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, arguing that intelligent behaviour could emerge from direct sensorimotor coupling with the environment without internal symbolic representations, formalising the nouvelle AI research programme.