Below is my favorite one in the list. An example of this are
neural-networks. Neural networks are just a parameter-free
optimization/estimation method.
No magic at all, just a boring and not very efficient estimator.
Chrilly
Warning: Cynical Definition...
My definition of AI is any algorithm that is new in computer
science. Once the algorithm becomes accepted then it's
not AI, it's just a boring algorithm.
At one time windows, mouse, menus, scroolbars etc. were considered
an AI technique for makeing computers understand natural language.
(The menus are a list of valid words the system understands)
This is also why I study "Cognition", not AI.
R. Keene
Chrilly, your definition of AI is too limited. See, for example,
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/definitions.of.ai.html.
Regards,
Hideki (gg)
chrilly: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
However, I have to disagree with this statement:
"UCT: Complete Antithesis to AI-approach"
Martin Mueller quotes J.McCarthy in his thesis:
"The research of Go programs is still in its infancy, but we shall see
that to bring Go
programs to a level comparable with current Chess programs, investigations
of a totally
different kind than used in computer chess are needed".
UCT is different to Alpha-Beta (not totally, because its some other form
of search, but it is
different). I am sure, McCarthy had not UCT in mind. It was always the
goal of McCarthy and
his followers to simulate and to surpass the human mind. HAL in Stanly
Kubrics Odyssee in
space 2001 is the dream-computer of this discipline.
UCT has nothing to do with human Go. It has some similarity to the
behaviour of ant-collonies
(its not in the technical sense an ant-colony algo). It was never the goal
of AI to explain
ants.
I really thing it is exactly a modern AI approach!! Also it is a
general algorithm applied to many different domains (and many are not
two player games, ie max-max problems and not min-max).
I full aggree, it is a general and very interesting algorithm which can be
applied to many
domains.
How would you define modern AI? Obviously it is not the classic approach
to mimic humans
anymore. But what is it?
In my opinion is UCT a statistical estimation method. The armed-bandit is
classical
statistical problem.
I think it is exactly the bad example for the "anti-drosophila
thesis"...
What do we learn about the human mind from UCT?
Chrilly
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