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They are referring to the fact it uses a connectionist architecture rather than a von Neumann one.

For a connectionist, it is a dream to have access to the massive amount of CPUs that Google has.

Some say cognition is computation, others say its just behavior of a dynamic or connectionist system.

The institutions were afraid to give grants for connectionist research for the most of the second half of XX century.

How does your connectionist interconnected networks of simple units actually give rise to general AI?

Deep learning networks are an assembly of existing connectionist parts, enabled by Moore's Law.

Rather, those mathematical connectionist models are just that: models of aspects of the brain.

Rosenblatt's fate, sidelining Solomonoff's theory of learning) the credibility of nascent connectionist developments, likely stalling the progress by more than a decade.

But in the early 21st century connectionist theories of AI were far outside the mainstream; they were only a matter of the history of computation.

Even if humans are fairly complicated, someday a connectionist approach or maybe a rough approximation of a human brain might succeed at creating something arguably conscious.

He didn't believe that statistical or connectionist approaches were bad, just that they were not a silver bullet and not going to solve every problem with AI.

The article mentions Marvin Minsky as an advocate of symbolic logic approaches, and that Perceptrons (the book) was an attack on perceptrons and neural nets and connectionist theories.

For a connectionist, the "magic" is the connective learning algorithm.

Okay, fair enough, neural nets (often called "connectionist AI") might have been the one kind of AI that involved enough number crunching that the CM was a favorable choice for running it.

I remember reading "neural network" articles back from late 80's, early 90's, which weren't just about ANNs, but also other connectionist approaches like Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps and Stephen Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART)...

I must say that, possibly because of my own background as a reformed AI researcher, that article on "Logical or Connectionist AI?" you refer to there is far more interesting than the original article!

Connectionist models have lots of theory by theoreticians explicitly pissed off about Chomsky's assertion that there is an inbuilt ability for language.

Connectionist models and their properties.