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Whatever Happened To AI?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-in-a-name dept.

stinkymountain writes to tell us NetworkWorld's James Gaskin has an interesting take on Artificial Intelligence research and how the term AI is diverging from the actual implementation. "If you define artificial intelligence as self-aware, self-learning, mobile systems, then artificial intelligence has been a huge disappointment. On the other hand, every time you search the Web, get a movie recommendation from NetFlix, or speak to a telephone voice recognition system, tools developed chasing the great promise of intelligent machines do the work."

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  1. Re:a disappointment? by s.bots · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dark Helmet: What's the matter with this thing? What's with all that churning and bubbling? You call that a Radar Screen?
    [Sandurz points to the sign on the machine]
    Colonel Sandurz: No sir, we call it Mr. Coffee. Care for some?
    Dark Helmet: I always have coffee when I watch radar, you know that!
    Colonel Sandurz: Of course I do, sir.
    Dark Helmet: Everybody knows that!
    All the henchmen in the room: Of course we do, sir!
    Dark Helmet: Now that I have my coffee I'm ready to watch radar. Where is it?
    Colonel Sandurz: Right here, sir.
    [Sandurz points to the sign on the radar screen that says Mr. Radar]

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes