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Title: Intelligence without Representation
Author: Rodney A Brooks
Journal: Artificial Intelligence Journal
Volume: 47
Pages: 139--159
Year: 1991
Abstract: Artificial intelligence research has foundered on the issue of representation. When intelligence is approached in an incremental manner, with strict reliance on interfacing to the real world through perception and action, reliance on representation disappears. In this paper we outline our approach to incrementally building complete intelligent Creatures. The fundamental decomposition of the intelligent system is not into independent information processing units which must interface with each other via representations. Instead, the intelligent system is decomposed into independent and parallel activity producers which all interface directly to the world through perception and action, rather than interface to each other particularly much. The notions of central and peripheral systems evaporateeverything is both central and peripheral. Based on these principles we have built a very successful series of mobile robots which operate without supervision as Creatures in standard office environments.

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  title =	 {Intelligence without Representation},
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  journal =	 {Artificial Intelligence Journal},
  year =	 1991,
  volume =	 47,
  pages =	 {139--159},
  abstract =	 {Artificial intelligence research has foundered on
                  the issue of representation. When intelligence is
                  approached in an incremental manner, with strict
                  reliance on interfacing to the real world through
                  perception and action, reliance on representation
                  disappears. In this paper we outline our approach to
                  incrementally building complete intelligent
                  Creatures. The fundamental decomposition of the
                  intelligent system is not into independent
                  information processing units which must interface
                  with each other via representations. Instead, the
                  intelligent system is decomposed into independent
                  and parallel activity producers which all interface
                  directly to the world through perception and action,
                  rather than interface to each other particularly
                  much. The notions of central and peripheral systems
                  evaporateeverything is both central and
                  peripheral. Based on these principles we have built
                  a very successful series of mobile robots which
                  operate without supervision as Creatures in standard
                  office environments.},
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  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/brooks91b.pdf},
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