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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."
Once again a bunch of stupid fucks confuse artificial intelligence with artificial life.
Been watching a little to much crummy sci-fi lately folks?
bwahahah
s/Farmer/JonKatz/g;
s/SHEEP/12\ year\ old\ boy/g;
beat me to it.
I'm only 30 years old, and as a child I remember the "scary" face of AI being presented to the public as living machines which would out-think humans and render us redundant, engineered by unethical scientists.
Nowadays AI is never mentioned in popular media. It has been replaced by the new emphasis in public-facing science: cloning and gene therapy.
This is the new AI in the mind of the ordinary citizen. It will lead to the destruction of the human race, and poses many ethical and moral questions. In the UK it is being demonised by the popular press without real debate, much like AI probably was 20 years ago.
Incidently, this was an excellent "heads-up" article for a novice like me, and I gained significantly from it.
Did you even read the article? Heck I bet you didn't even read the title. You just looked and saw that it had no comments and came in here to spout your crap. Slashdot should make it so that nobody can anonymously post until at least ten minutes after the first non anonymous post is logged. Maybe more. I am only posting anonymously because I want to show that not all AC's are jerks like you. A ten minute wait wouldn't kill me if I had something to say that I wanted to keep anonymous. Somebody mod this up to at least a 1 so that people who have given up will see it. Comments?
> i'm here, i'm queer, i don't want any more bears.
Since you apparently prefer hairless males, are you sure you aren't really a pedophile, or perhaps a closet heterosexual?
mad phaggoty
This is an example of lack of inteligent answer... artficial or real :)
THE SETTING: A Scottish old timer in Scotland, in a bar, talking to a young man.
Old Man: "Lad, look out there to the field. Do ya see that fence? Look how well it's built. I built that fence stone by stone with me own two hands. Piled it for months. But do they call me McGregor-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo.."
Then the old man gestured at the bar.
"Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by me own achin' back. I carved that wood with me own hard labour, for eight days. But do they call me McGregor-the-Bar-builder? Nooo..."
Then the old man points out the window.
"Eh, Laddy, look out to sea. Do ya see that pier that sretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off me back. I nailed it board by board. But do they call me McGregor-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo..."
Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention.
"But ya fuck one goat . . . "
Type comformant under assignment.
It's from Eiffel.
(It assigns Void (i.e., NULL) if the types aren't conformant, otherwise it does a normal assignment.)
It seems to be slightly misused here, however, since it appears that a test rather than an assignment is what is desired. isMember or is_kind_of would seem to be the more appropriate operators. (I hope I got the spelling right, I'm not currently using Python or Java.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
So fuck you. Oh yea, one more thing, fp.