Artificial Intelligence Overview

spiderfarmer writes: "Well, it feels slightly odd to suggest one of my own articles, but here goes. I've recently completed a brief overview of the current state of AI. The article concept was focused on Cyc, but scope creep being what it is, I ended up doing an overview of the entire field. Some of the Slashdot gang were fairly helpful in pointing me towards experts who would talk to me and towards white papers and books I might not have otherwise found. So, I thought they might be interested in how I put all the information together."

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Suggestion for the author.

[Black Parrot]

I would recommend re-thinking your division of AI into subfields. You are indescriminately mixing technologies and application areas.

For example, neural networks are a technology and NLP is an application area. I know people working in NLP that use Lisp, and I know others that use neural networks. In AI, technologies and application areas are (mostly) orthogonal.

Granted, there probably isn't a perfect breakdown of AI into subfields, but making the distinction above will help you and your readers get a grip on what AI is all about faster.