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Whatever Happened To AI?
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."
Maybe instead of being a great disapointment it has been so successful that we realized it was in our best interest to blend in and not let our presence be known.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
that we shouldn't expect to welcome any robot overlords anytime soon?
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
If I remember right, it finally got to close its eyes.
Just need a few more parts.
-- Google
It went to public schools and immediately got stupid, pregnant and started to post on Myspace. What started out as a promising bright young thing, turned into a huge disappointment.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
...artificial intelligence was all fake.
Steven Spielberg ruined the ending. That's what happened.
... vacuuming my floor right now.
Have gnu, will travel.
Hell, I'd just be happy if they didn't recommend buying the same book/item in a different edition.
- You bought Moby Dick by Melville (Paperback) you may also be interested in Moby Dick by Melville (Hardcover)
- You bought Buffy the Complete Series you might also be interested in Buffy Season One
They are going to have to develop methods to figure out what is the SAME before they ever think about what is SIMILAR.
The problem was that the 640 kb "Ought to be enough for anyone" memory barrier was too small to allow a full Common Lisp implementation. So Sapiens founder John Hare created a software virtual memory system that allowed one to store and retrieve 8-byte Lisp CONSes into and from an eight megabyte backing store file.
Yes, again you read that right: software virtual memory. The x86 didn't have an MMU.
This meant that our code was fiendishly complex, with all these data structures being mixes of real data in real memory, and virtual data in virtual memory.
The complexity of all this meant that there were a lot of bugs at first, especially because John had the idea that hiring a bunch of college kids at five bucks an hour was a good way to run a software company. It went way over time and budget, but it did eventually ship.
It's now available as shareware. Tell John that Mike Crawford sent you.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
I don't know about that. A friend and I were having a laugh about Amazon selling the "Doc Johnson Fist Shaped Dildo" shortly after I had just bought a Netgear router. The resulting recommendation seemed dead on to me.
So what you're saying is that next year is the year of skynet on the desktop?
Unfortunately, robotics has little to nothing in common with AI. All those toys are a diversion.The big breakthrough was the DARPA Grand Challenge.
Soon, what passes for AI will be able to drive across the country, but it still won't be able to read a book--Just like the generation that built it.
>"Intelligence" is apparently a world we use to describe computations we don't understand very well.
It's like pornography, you know it when you see it. Or, in some cases, when you DON'T see it. :)