Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gofai

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: go-fai
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Acronym of good old-fashioned artificial intelligence (“a rule-based or logic-based form of symbolic AI”).

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But by what standards are these judgments made? As near as I can tell, there is only one: if a GOFAI analysis of real (human-like) intelligence into primitive computations someday succeeds, then that analysis itself constitutes a relevant standard of more and less intelligent—namely, up and down the hierarchy."

Etymology

Coined by American philosopher John Haugeland in his 1985 book Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does gofai mean?: Acronym of good old-fashioned artificial intelligence (“a rule-based or logic-based form of symbolic AI”).
Where does gofai come from?: Coined by American philosopher John Haugeland in his 1985 book Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea.

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