Scott Fahlman, September 7, 2009
Categories: AI
After a pause that was much longer than I had planned, I’m once again able to spend some time working on new articles for the Knowledge Nuggets blog. In this one, I will try to wrap up some themes that I introduced in earlier articles; then we will move on to new topics.
As for the […]
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Scott Fahlman, June 25, 2008
Categories: AI, KR Issues
This is the second mini-nuggets article: a collection of propositions, with some minimal explanation for each, on a given topic. The idea is to sketch out an overall approach or point of view quickly, without getting bogged down in a lot of detail or lengthy justification about each point. I will come back and expand […]
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Scott Fahlman, June 17, 2008
Categories: AI, KR Issues
In an earlier article, “AI: What’s Missing“, I listed several capabilities that are missing from current AI systems – capabilities that must somehow be provided before our systems will be able to exhibit anything approaching general, human-like intelligence. Perhaps the most important of these, because it interacts with several others, is “The ability to assimilate […]
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Scott Fahlman, April 21, 2008
Categories: AI
We seem to be solving AI backwards. That is, the early triumphs of the field have all been examples of what we consider to be mankind’s “higher” mental abilities – the things that we learn to do in college or grad school, or that we view as a sign of particular intellectual prowess: chess, […]
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Scott Fahlman, March 30, 2008
Categories: AI
The best presentation I have seen in the past few years about where AI is now and where we should be heading was Ron Brachman’s 2006 Presidential Address to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)[1] conference. A transcript of that talk was reprinted in AI Magazine (Winter 2006) and is available online. […]
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Scott Fahlman, March 26, 2008
Categories: AI
“When will AI research produce an intelligent machine?” This is a favorite question of journalists and people I meet at parties. And it’s a question that almost all AI experts try to avoid. (I usually say something like, “Let’s see… today is Wednesday?” and then start counting slowly on my fingers: […]
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