On Saturday 15 July 2006 11:08 am, Todd Walton wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been reading a lot about functional programming, lisp, AI, etc in
> > the last few months. Learning some neat stuff.
>
> I've been reading a book by Joseph Weizenbaum called _Computer Power
> and Human Reason_, written in 1976. Weizenbaum is the creator of
> SLIP, a list-processing programming language, and ELIZA, the
> psychotherapist computer program. He was so shocked by the intimacy
> people displayed toward ELIZA that he wrote a book about what
> computers are not, and what we should not try to make them do. I'm
> learning some things about computers at their most fundamental level,
> and he has some good arguments against the notion of computers ever
> being as "intelligent" as humans.
There was a big conference at Dartmouth over the last few days to celebrate
the first 50 years of AI research ...
During the summer of 1956, computer science pioneers gathered in
Hanover, New Hampshire, for the "Dartmouth Summer Research Project
on Artificial Intelligence." Professor John McCarthy, then on the
Dartmouth
mathematics faculty, coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the
title to
emphasize the Project's focus on the creation of machines, especially
computer programs, to simulate human intelligence. Marvin Minsky,
Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon worked with McCarthy to
organize the Project. Among the Project's highlights was the
presentation
by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell of one the first operating programs
in
AI - the Logic Theorist.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ai50/homepage.html
Here is a recent interview with Marvin Minsky who coined the term AI.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17164&ch=infotech
> The book is fascinating, even if I don't agree with some of his
> conclusions. I tend to stand on the pro-AI side of the fence.
>
> -todd
At the AI50 conference there is a paper ...
"Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter
Century",
Ray Kurzweil
I think Kurzweil is overrated but I suspect he does not think of me at all :)
BobLQ
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