Doug Lenat, one of the leading A.I. people still active in that field, and now president of Cycorp has a very insightful article in the Summer 2008 edition of The AI Magazine entitled "The Voice of the Turtle: Whatever Happened to AI?". I am sure Doug refers to himself as the turtle for his tenacious work on bringing to reality common sense reasoning for language queries. He lists 12 reasons why AI has failed to really bring about machine intelligence. His reasons also apply to artificial neural networks.
12. The Media and the Arts. Here Lenat refers to the hype cycles that beset A.I. in which funding first becomes too easy only to dry up completely as the promises made by most researchers are not met. This leads to sub-optimal funding decisions.
11. Smurfitis. As a result of competing for funding researchers in academia tout their ideas as being something new... [Read More]
When you register you should get a confirmation email that allows you to complete your registration. Some of you were not sent such an email. I have turned on a switch in the forum software that I hope corrects this problem but if not just contact me and I will add you manually.
Edit (June 28, 2008): Since this error seems to be continuing I have turned off the confirmation email requirement until I can determine the source of this problem. You should now be able to register at the forums without any problems.
It can do everything the main version will except save to disk. With it you can download the brain circuit files posted at this site for viewing or experimenting.
You will need to register with these forums first in order to access the download file.
Soft State Magic
