Cambrian intelligence: The early history of the new AI
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Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI is a book by roboticist Rodney Brooks that outlines his influential behavior-based approach to artificial intelligence and robotics in contrast to traditional symbolic AI.
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| Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI | 2 |
| Cambrian intelligence: The early history of the new AI canonical | 1 |
| The Early History of the New AI | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2265119 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cambrian intelligence: The early history of the new AI Context triple: [Rodney Brooks, notableWork, Cambrian intelligence: The early history of the new AI]
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Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
"Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence" is a foundational paper by Shane Legg (with Marcus Hutter) that formally defines and mathematically characterizes general machine intelligence using concepts from algorithmic information theory and reinforcement learning.
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that analyzes the potential development of superhuman artificial intelligence and the existential risks and strategic challenges it could pose to humanity.
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C.
"A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence"
"A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence" is the seminal 1955 research proposal by John McCarthy and colleagues that launched the field of artificial intelligence by defining its goals and organizing the landmark 1956 Dartmouth conference.
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How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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The Age of Intelligent Machines
The Age of Intelligent Machines is a 1990 book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the history, current state, and future implications of artificial intelligence and computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cambrian intelligence: The early history of the new AI Target entity description: Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI is a book by roboticist Rodney Brooks that outlines his influential behavior-based approach to artificial intelligence and robotics in contrast to traditional symbolic AI.
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A.
Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
"Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence" is a foundational paper by Shane Legg (with Marcus Hutter) that formally defines and mathematically characterizes general machine intelligence using concepts from algorithmic information theory and reinforcement learning.
-
B.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by philosopher Nick Bostrom that analyzes the potential development of superhuman artificial intelligence and the existential risks and strategic challenges it could pose to humanity.
-
C.
"A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence"
"A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence" is the seminal 1955 research proposal by John McCarthy and colleagues that launched the field of artificial intelligence by defining its goals and organizing the landmark 1956 Dartmouth conference.
-
D.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
-
E.
The Age of Intelligent Machines
The Age of Intelligent Machines is a 1990 book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the history, current state, and future implications of artificial intelligence and computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
cognitive science
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computer science ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ⓘ |
| author |
Rodney A. Brooks
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linked to:
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | symbolic AI ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describes |
behavior-based approach to AI
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behavior-based robotics ⓘ |
| documents |
development of subsumption architecture
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early mobile robot experiments ⓘ shift from symbolic to behavior-based AI in robotics ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence research
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robotics research ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
embodied intelligence
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reactive control ⓘ situated agents ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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scientific literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
collected research papers by Rodney Brooks
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introductory commentary by Rodney Brooks ⓘ |
| influenced |
behavior-based robotics community
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embodied AI research ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
artificial intelligence
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behavior-based AI ⓘ history of artificial intelligence ⓘ robotics ⓘ subsumption architecture ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| placesInContext | Cambrian explosion metaphor for AI development ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| publisher | MIT Press ⓘ |
| subtitle | The Early History of the New AI ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
historians of AI
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researchers in artificial intelligence ⓘ students of robotics ⓘ |
| title | Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI ⓘ |
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Cambrian intelligence: The early history of the new AI Description of subject: Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI is a book by roboticist Rodney Brooks that outlines his influential behavior-based approach to artificial intelligence and robotics in contrast to traditional symbolic AI.
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