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In their book Perceptrons (1969), Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert showed that there were certain input/output pairs for which no set of weights would suffice. At that point in time, it probably appeared to many as though the age-old cycle would again repeat itself. , to those enamored of logical formalisms). Research continued, however, and ways of meeting the challenge set by Minsky and Papert would be devised (see Chapter 2). With hindsight, it was inevitable that this new research program, connectionism, would survive.
That generates the members of M (with possible repetitions). In other words, the function f(n) enumerates the elements of M in the order f(0), f(1), f(2), and so on. Any such sequence of symbols is decidable if and only if it is possible to determine in a finite number of steps whether or not it can be derived from some given sequence of symbols using an algorithm. To solve any such problem, the Turing machine relies on its ability to write symbols down on its infinite tape. The tape, infinite in both directions, is divided into squares, each of which is either blank or else has a symbol from a finite alphabet written on it (see diagram).
It was also hoped that these artificial reasoning devices might supply the brains for robots. STRIPS, for instance, was the computational system used to guide one of the first robots, a wheeled contraption known as Shakey. Shakey used television cameras as input devices and could interact with a variety of objects. 5 Miller/Gallanter/Pribram TOTE (Congruity) 26 BEGINNING CONCEPTS as well. SHRDLU manipulated blocks in a virtual world displayed on a computer screen and could process sentences in order to answer questions about the blocks and carry out instructions.