sri

4 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 observation, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

SRI's neural-net group retooled toward symbolic AI around 1965–66, years before Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons was published in 1969 — the social closure predates the formal refutation

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, perceptrons
Dreyfus's 1988 essay and Olazaran's 1993 SRI interviews converge on the same verdict — connectionism's mid-1960s eclipse was social closure, not scientific refutation — while naming different social mechanisms

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
What genuinely connects Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 vindication claim and SRI's ARPA-funding retooling: independent evidence for the same 'never refuted, socially displaced' verdict

capture promoted 2026-08-13 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
SRI's neural-network group retooled toward symbolic AI to follow ARPA funding, not because perceptrons had been refuted

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, sri, funding, sociology-of-science