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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. a disappointment? by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:a disappointment? by Anonymous+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, and when the AI's take over they won't do it with Mega Killer Robots(tm). They will do it by sending every one a text message that reads "Vote for the all AI government or we shut off your hot water and coffee."

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    2. Re:a disappointment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      How does that make you feel?

    3. Re:a disappointment? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

      I figured if I were intelligent and different, early on in life, that it was best not to advertise how smart I was.

      LOL! ME 2!!!!!!!!!

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    4. Re:a disappointment? by badran · · Score: 5, Funny

      Look at the CA government... IT is run but the freaking terminator..

  2. Whatever Happened To AI? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Steve screwed it up by TheGreatOrangePeel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steven Spielberg ruined the ending. That's what happened.

  4. Its ... by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... vacuuming my floor right now.

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  5. Re:Not even that. by mopower70 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Does this mean by troutsoup · · Score: 5, Funny

    in firefox 3, type about:robots into the address bar and hit enter.

    they are among us!

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