» Site Navigation |
|
|
|
» External Links |
|
|
|
 Whatever Happened to AI? Article by Doug Lenat |
|
Jul 04, 2008 - 6:42 PM - by David Olmsted
|
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]
|
1 Reply | 1,953 Views
|
|
Not Getting a Confirmation Email? |
|
Jun 28, 2008 - 5:47 AM - by David Olmsted
|
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.
|
|
0 Replies | 3 Views
|
|
Site Navigation |
|
Jun 20, 2008 - 8:58 AM - by David Olmsted
|
|
You can get back to the home page of this site by clicking on the "Soft State Magic" link that appears at the bottom of each page.
|
|
0 Replies | 5 Views
|
|
» Recent Threads |
|
No Threads to Display.
|
|
|
» September 2010 |
| S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
| 29 | 30 | 31 |
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
| 1 | 2 |
|
» News Archive |
|
Thoughts on Opening the...
06-17-2008 02:17 PM
06-17-2008 02:17 PM
0 Replies,
1,465 Views
|
|
Welcome
03-08-2008 11:20 AM
03-08-2008 11:20 AM
0 Replies,
16 Views
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:02 AM.
Soft State Magic