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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
<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a> in AI research. This conflict tangles together two
separate issues. One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI;
&#8216;neats&#8217; tend to try to build systems that &#8216;reason&#8217;
in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as
doing, while &#8216;scruffies&#8217; profess not to care whether an
algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works. More
importantly, neats tend to believe that logic is king, while scruffies
favor looser, more ad-hoc methods driven by empirical knowledge. To a
neat, scruffy methods appear promiscuous, successful only by accident, and
not productive of insights about how intelligence actually works; to a
scruffy, neat methods appear to be hung up on formalism and irrelevant to
the hard-to-capture &#8216;common sense&#8217; of living
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