On Learning: by Oliver G. Selfridge, Chief Scientist of the Fundamental Research Laboratory, General Telephone & Electronics, Waltham, MA
Wikipedia page for Oliver G. Selfridge.

Source: (Lawler) Cognitive Science and Education: the future within our reach:
a series of Invited Talks at Purdue University, 1988-1989
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Selfridge Abstract: On Learning: the challenge of AI
Pointing to the ancient roots of AI, Selfridge highlights the links between Cybernetcs and modern AI, where his studies with Wiener and long friendship
with McCulloch are a bridge, as is his articulate formulation of behavior in terms of control theory. His examples of increasing complexity lead to the
challenging formulation of the central issue for making sense of learning: “how can we represent the world so that learning is easy?”
Oliver gently corrects Lawler’s faux pas by emphasizing the deep reason Minsky valued the McCulloch-Pitts work: they established that
neural nets could compute anything a Turing machine could compute and thus, that the brain is some kind of computer.

Introduction by Bob Lawler, 1/12/1989, 11mb

What I think about Learning, 13mb

The early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI),14mb

Learning: always a central theme in AI, 16mb

Learning seen as adaptation with control loops, 18mb

Adaptation & Learning in living systems: eg.e-coli, 12mb

Control in more complex life forms: mating of moths, 14mb

How do we represent the world so learning is easy? 12mb

We learn because we have a rich multiplicity of purposes,15

The complexity of purposes: the Dandelion Caper, 9.1mb

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