There is melancholy in discovering what AI techniques have and haven't worked: success came not through philosophy, cognitive science, and logic (the elegant symbolic approaches) but through mundane mathematics (statistics, probability, linear algebra) at scale.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“there is I think something Melancholy about what AI techniques have worked...a career in AI now demanded a background not in philosophy or cognitive science or logic but in probability statistics”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 7/7/2026, 3:38:35 AM
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