Brooks: intelligence without representation

What changed

Argued for situated intelligence without a centralized explicit world representation, grounded in behavior-based robotics.

Scientific scope

The record is Brooks's sole-author 1991 Artificial Intelligence paper, received in 1987. It is distinct from the 1986 subsumption-architecture paper and does not show that every intelligent system can dispense with all internal state or representation.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Brooks's sole-author 1991 Artificial Intelligence paper, received in 1987. It is distinct from the 1986 subsumption-architecture paper and does not show that every intelligent system can dispense with all internal state or representation.

Contributors

• Rodney A. Brooks · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

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