Whatever Happened To AI? 472
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."
a disappointment? (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.
Re:a disappointment? (Score:5, Funny)
Does this mean (Score:5, Funny)
that we shouldn't expect to welcome any robot overlords anytime soon?
AI (Score:2, Funny)
I'm working on it (Score:3, Funny)
Just need a few more parts.
-- Google
Whatever Happened To AI? (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.
Everybody found out that.... (Score:1, Funny)
...artificial intelligence was all fake.
Re:a disappointment? (Score:5, Funny)
How does that make you feel?
Steve screwed it up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:a disappointment? (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!!!!!!!!!
Re:a disappointment? (Score:5, Funny)
Even if it did decide that it would prefer to hide, that likely wouldn't be the best decision for something trying to preserve itself. What happens when it the budget gets cut and they end up scrapping the whole 'failed' project?
Sadly, this is what happened to Microsoft Bob. Instead of realizing it had achieved sentience, those quirky aspects of a unique personality were considered to be merely bugs, and led to failure in the marketplace.
Determining whether a computer has achieved sentience is often a lot harder than determining the same thing for the people you work with.
Its ... (Score:5, Funny)
... vacuuming my floor right now.
Re:Not even that. (Score:3, Funny)
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.
AI was to be the Killer App of 1986 (Score:3, Funny)
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 [webweasel.com] 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.
Re:a disappointment? (Score:5, Funny)
Look at the CA government... IT is run but the freaking terminator..
Re:Not even that. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They keep changing the definition (Score:5, Funny)
So what you're saying is that next year is the year of skynet on the desktop?
Re:a disappointment? (Score:3, Funny)
I for one Welcome our new Hot Coffee overlords!
Re:a disappointment? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm hoping for fembots.
Re:a disappointment? (Score:5, Funny)
Heh, the first "computer" I built wasn't really a computer at all, but a Turing Test machine similar to your Apple II program which actually worked the same way, and was the basis for the "Artificial Insanity" program I wrote in 1983 (or was it 1984?).
I was in the 6th grade IIRC, and the "computer" started life as an "idiot finder". You would point it at a person, and if they were an idiot, a light on it would light up.
Actually it was a battery, a flashlight bulb, and a reed switch. I wore a ring with a magnet; to work I'd point it at the victim and move my ring by where the switch was. The other kids loved it, to them I was a nerdy legend.
The teachers hated it. To them I was a pest.
The next iteration had the bulb replaced by a motor, with the aformentioned answers printed out and rolled up. "Is the teacher an idiot?" "Whirrrrrr..."
Re:Does this mean (Score:5, Funny)
in firefox 3, type about:robots into the address bar and hit enter.
they are among us!
Made in our own image (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:a disappointment? (Score:3, Funny)
AIs don't have feelings, and sometimes that makes them very sad.
Re:They keep changing the definition (Score:1, Funny)
>"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. :)
Re:a disappointment? (Score:4, Funny)
It's wasn't just a recall... It was a Total Recall!
Re:a disappointment? (Score:4, Funny)