Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, as well as Douglas Hofstadter and Stephen Wolfram, are all renowned figures in the field of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and computational theory. However, their ideas and approaches to these fields differ significantly.
Perhaps some greater background is useful for the layperson re AI. ChatGPT below does some explaining, in brief, about how we got here.
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