I got thinking about way back when in 1972-74 in undergrad school. I was doing some work in AI, albeit within the psych department. This was before the heyday of neural network although there was some activity in the area. I ran across the book, Intelligence: Its Organization and Development by Michael Cunningham. He proposed a rigorous, testable way in which intelligence organizes in the infant. I guess it didn't work out since it didn't make the front page of the New York Times as a major breakthrough sometime in the intervening decades.
Interestingly, a web search turns up little information beyond citations. None of the titles in the citations indicate a successful implementation or breakthrough based on the work.
I still have a paper I wrote about the book and a description of a FORTRAN implementation that never got finished.
One of the challenges back then, and remains so somewhat today, is that testing ideas like this requires a simulation environment that can be as compl…
Interestingly, a web search turns up little information beyond citations. None of the titles in the citations indicate a successful implementation or breakthrough based on the work.
I still have a paper I wrote about the book and a description of a FORTRAN implementation that never got finished.
One of the challenges back then, and remains so somewhat today, is that testing ideas like this requires a simulation environment that can be as compl…