Rodney Brooks proposed behavioral AI in the late 1980s as a reaction against symbolic AI, arguing that intelligence is not primarily symbolic reasoning or knowledge but rather emerges from the interaction of many conflicting, embodied behaviors (some hardwired, some learned), organized in layers from simple obstacle avoidance upward.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“Brooks questioned the fundamental principles on which AI had been working since the 1950s for 30 years and those principles were that uh intelligence uh can be solved through a process of symbolic reasoning”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM
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