Since Watson on Jeopardy! Lead to a discussion on AI, did anyone else read Wired's cover story from last month on AI? If not, here's the link to it (at bottom).
The main gist of it is this: AI is all around us today, but it's nothing like we expected it to be. Instead of trying to model human intelligence, which had long been the goal of AI, modern AI systems are built to accomplish a specific task: you cars stability control and collision avoidance systems, for example. While Watson isn't mentioned in the article, it's relevant to him (it?) since he's not AI in the classic definition, but is in the modern definintion - he's a computer system built to handle a specific task well - Jeopardy! http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_ai_essay_airevolution/ -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
