[OT] How long before..

[Chipp Walters]

Yes Richmond, you are correct. The AI ship seemed to sail quite some time
ago. One of the top AI scientists, Doug Lenat, has been working on creating
an AI entity, Cyc (www.cyc.com) and wrote an interesting article: "The
Voice of the Turtle: Whatever Happened to AI?" which is an interesting read:
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/2106/1996

In his article he gives 12 reasons why AI has struggled so. Doug lives here
in Austin and I've had a chance to visit with him on occasion. Very
interesting fellow.

Many have abandoned AI (except for gamers) in favor of more
database-centric analysis tools which can more readily demonstrate trends
and answer what/if types of questions.

I'm not holding my breath for an AI HAL and home cleaning robots. I suspect
we're still quite some time away.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 08/01/2012 12:44 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
>
>> Probably, yes ;-)
>>
>> Le 1 août 2012 à 01:35, -=>JB a écrit :
>>
>>  Trial and error are a part of developing.  AI will be here soon and you
>>> will
>>
>>