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August 11, 2005

AI Conference

There is an interesting story over at The Register about a recent AI Conference which comes to the standard inevitable conclusion:

Last week the top researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) gathered in Edinburgh to analyse the state of their subject. The topics under discussion ranged from robotic exoskeletons, to what tool-using crows can teach us about our own brains. Impressive results were reported in several fields, with previously intractable problems dropping like flies. Yet true machine intelligence seems as much of a dream as ever.
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Through our flexible understanding of the world and our ability to think creatively, we can solve the complex many-faceted problems of daily life. Our brains enable us to scale mountains, make websites, fall in love, build cities, and send men to the moon. QRIO can recognise faces and say "Hello". AI is still a young subject. It has a long way to go, but people are constantly pushing the boundaries. Meanwhile the only true intelligence remains our own.
The problem in AI is that we underestimated the complexity of intelligence by many orders of magnitude - hence the lack of positive results.

Posted by Ozguru at August 11, 2005 07:00 AM

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