Artificial intelligence, like other disciplines, includes both theoreticians,
called “neats”, and practitioners, “scruffies”. The neats insist on having a
theoretical justification for everything, although they don’t have a theory,
while the scruffies just want to make things work, including impossible
things.
The neats consider the indefeasible indefensible, while the scruffies defend
the infeasible.
copyright 1991, 2023 Jay J.P. Scott
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