14 Another issue is the many limitations humans face in reasoning, such as confirmation bias, motivated 
reasoning, context effects, the conjunction fallacy, and so forth. In an ideal world, we would learn from 
what humans do well, but leave these anomalies behind. For discussions of why humans might have 
evolved such cognitive inefficiencies even though such cognitive errors may not be functionally optimal 
see Marcus (Marcus, 2008). 

 

 

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able to tell until we get our first two houses--architecture and knowledge 
representation-in order.
The Next Decade in AI-