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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by rfreytag on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @08:50AM (#1982899)
The first question should be "What is Artificial Intelligence?" That has always been a surprisingly hard question for which to get a consensus answer.

EDIT: Searching shows that the definition is still all over the place. See the comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982919 for an reasonable example of disagreement over definitions.

Perhaps the question is - can any vital scientific discipline to have a simple definition? I'm remembering the old joke where "Biology is really chemistry, and chemistry is really physics, and physics is really mathematics."

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by xtacy on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @09:10AM (#1982951)
Russell and Norvig's book has a nice table that talks about what the community perceives AI to be.

Preview from Google Books: http://goo.gl/U4Xyn

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by contextfree on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @12:05PM (#1983641)
This may be myopic of me but after reading Russell/Norvig I more or less equate "AI" with "the kind of stuff in Russell/Norvig". Or, (I hope) less lamely, it's more about a paradigm or perspective on programming - "agent-oriented programming" - than about any particular technique or result.
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