In ''Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea'', John Haugeland coined the term GOFAI describing, loosely, symbolic approaches to Artificial Intelligence . In current AI research, the term is often extended to GOFAIR (''Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence and Robotics'') to reflect the importance of symbolic reasoning in traditional Robotics . Often, GOFAI(R) is used to distinguish systems that do not employ Connectionist or Statistical Machine Learning algorithms, which have come to play a major role in AI, robotics and Computer Vision since the late- 1990s .
Rodney Brooks is one of the better known opponents of GOFAIR: he aims to produce autonomous robots without symbolic representation (or with only minimal representation).
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