French mathematicians shunned 1980s AI for lacking provable theorems; physicists embraced neural nets
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-26
Quoting Robert Azencott on early-1980s French AI: mathematicians kept their distance partly because AI seemed hard to prove fine theorems about, while applied computer-vision researchers used 'Cartesian' algorithmic approaches far from ML's empirical pragmatism. The groups most receptive to neural networks were physicists and neurobiologists. The poster sums it up as 'ngmi.'
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