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As a separate discipline Artificial Intelligence (AI) is only about thirty years old. Since its growth has been exponential, many of its concepts and results are quite recent and still undergoing revision. AI is an overlap of the fields of computer science and cognitive science (Gardner, 1986). AI workers have adopted as their major paradigm the information-processing model. This model dominates cognitive psychology, one of the supporting disciplines of cognitive science. As long as other aspects and factors of intelligence are excluded from the AI model, it may be difficult for AI to duplicate higher aspects of intelligence (e.g. creativity), but useful knowledge bases are still possible to construct in fields like phytogeography today.
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Crovello, T.J. (1991). Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Phytogeography. In: Nimis, P.L., Crovello, T.J. (eds) Quantitative approaches to phytogeography. Tasks for vegetation science, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2063-7_1
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