From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 21:33:31 MDT
1950s
Computers process concepts as well as data; the first laboratories and
conferences focusing on artificial intelligence are organized.
1960s
Advances include industrial robots; an expert system that maps the structure
of complex chemicals; robot vision; and simple voice recognition.
1970s
Computers, learning from experience, evolve their own rules of behavior;
language analyzers draw valid inferences from newspaper articles; and a
computer becomes the world backgammon champion.
1980s
Fuzzy logic, a form of analysis based on assigning varying weight to data, is
used by industry; expert systems expand rapidly; huge databases are used in a
search for complex patterns in financial markets and the weather; and venture
capital pours in as expectations outdistance performance.
1990s
Though the term is rarely used, artificial intelligence advances on every
front -- including chess, with a computer for the first time beating the world
champion.
Courtesy: Business Day, The New Yawk Times, 6/30/2001
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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