for financial information on LOTR (and nearly every other movie), check out:
http://www.imdb.com
for LOTR, find its page on imdb.com and click on the "box office & business" link on the left column sidebar. should have all the financial information you want and more.
True AI would be a real thinking, feeling machine, and I'm not sure if that's possible.
the term "AI" encompasses a lot of subject areas. its an incredibly complex and interdisciplinary field.
for instance, it covers everything from playing chess (and game playing generally) to image recognition to genetic algorithms to autonomous agents to logical reasoning/inference to fuzzy logic and beyond.
in other words, you'd be surprised what "AI" covers.
in the last "renaissance" of AI (around the 1970s or thereabouts), the goal of AI was to create intelligent computers. this, as one might guess, was found to be pretty damn hard.
nowadays the goal (very generally of course) is to create computers that _ACT_ intelligently. there IS a difference.
as with many things, tis a matter of degree. some of the most interesting AI that i have seen of late has involved modeling the intelligences of animals like insects. while perhaps not overly "intelligent" in the universe of intelligent beings, insects do manage to perform well in real environments which is far better than most "AIs" can claim.
here's a good beginning (and even intermediate to advanced in some ways) book on AI.
Slashdot Mirror
for financial information on LOTR (and nearly every other movie), check out:
http://www.imdb.com
for LOTR, find its page on imdb.com and click on the "box office & business" link on the left column sidebar. should have all the financial information you want and more.
dkm92end
the term "AI" encompasses a lot of subject areas. its an incredibly complex and interdisciplinary field.
for instance, it covers everything from playing chess (and game playing generally) to image recognition to genetic algorithms to autonomous agents to logical reasoning/inference to fuzzy logic and beyond.
in other words, you'd be surprised what "AI" covers.
in the last "renaissance" of AI (around the 1970s or thereabouts), the goal of AI was to create intelligent computers. this, as one might guess, was found to be pretty damn hard.
nowadays the goal (very generally of course) is to create computers that _ACT_ intelligently. there IS a difference.
as with many things, tis a matter of degree. some of the most interesting AI that i have seen of late has involved modeling the intelligences of animals like insects. while perhaps not overly "intelligent" in the universe of intelligent beings, insects do manage to perform well in real environments which is far better than most "AIs" can claim.
here's a good beginning (and even intermediate to advanced in some ways) book on AI.
dkm92end