I've been revisiting Rodney A. Brooks' influential paper "Intelligence Without Representation" from 1991. For those unfamiliar, Brooks proposed that intelligent behavior can emerge from the interaction of simple behaviors with the environment, without needing explicit internal representations of the world. And also that the intelligent system is decomposed into independent and parallel activity producers which all interface directly to the world through perception and action, rather than interface to each other particularly much.I'm curious to hear your thoughts on two things:
1. What have been the most successful applications based on Brooks' idea of intelligence without representation? (e.g. projects, technologies, or products that have effectively utilized this approach)
2. What are the current/latest developments based on this idea?
Looking forward to your insights and examples!
PS. Here is a link to the paper - https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf