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Skriven 2004-08-10 08:05:44 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 1119 av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
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09 Aug 04 08:56, VERN HUMPHREY wrote to ED CONNELL:

 EC>>Reminds me of a friend who used to say, "Artificial Intelligence is
 EC>>nothing -- if only we could create REAL intelligence." :-)

 EC>>----------------------------------------------

 EC>>After a couple of graduate classes about artificial intelligence, 
 EC>>I've come to accept that most AI is rapid search of the solution 
 EC>>space by the computer.  That's what computers do well.  They are 
 EC>>fast and they are accurate.  Clever they are not.

 VH> A friend used to put it this way:

 VH>         Your car won't start, so you call Uncle Louie.  He asks
 VH>         questions, like 'has it got gas?' and 'Does the engine 
 VH> turn
 VH>         over?'

 VH>         If you make a list of all those questions and put them in 
 VH> a
 VH>         computer, you have an Expert System.

 VH>         If the Expert System is able to reorder the questions -- 
 VH> for
 VH>         example, skipping from Question 3 to Question 25 based on
 VH>         experience that shows a high probability that the answer 
 VH> to 3
 VH>         pionts toward 25, then you have Artificial Intelligence.


Its been awhile since I've read anything current on AI, but the latest engines
are using "fuzzy logic" and supposed to be much, much better than anything
prior.  Not sure how fuzzy logic works though, as I've never had the time to
really research it.

John 

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