Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 23 of 68

AI builds on logic as thought

Logical reasoning requires the manipulation of sentences described in a logical language. These sentences can be interpreted as representing concepts such as states of affairs in the world – or knowledge. Using computers to automate this process, Al has taken the “logic as thought” idea and built on it.

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