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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>neats vs. scruffies</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="neat-hack.html" title="neat hack"/><link rel="next" href="neep-neep.html" title="neep-neep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">neats vs. scruffies</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="neat-hack.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="neep-neep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="neats-vs--scruffies"/><dt xmlns="" id="neats-vs--scruffies"><b>neats vs. scruffies</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The label used to refer to one of the continuing
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<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a> in AI research. This conflict tangles together two
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separate issues. One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI;
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‘neats’ tend to try to build systems that ‘reason’
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in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as
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doing, while ‘scruffies’ profess not to care whether an
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algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works. More
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importantly, neats tend to believe that logic is king, while scruffies
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favor looser, more ad-hoc methods driven by empirical knowledge. To a
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neat, scruffy methods appear promiscuous, successful only by accident, and
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not productive of insights about how intelligence actually works; to a
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scruffy, neat methods appear to be hung up on formalism and irrelevant to
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the hard-to-capture ‘common sense’ of living
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