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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 good quote by utnapistim · · Score: 5, Informative

    The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~Edsger Dijkstra

    Also, for understanding recommendation systems and pattern recognition in volumes of data, I found Collective Intelligence to be a great resource.

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    Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)