Re:The end of AI winter?
by giardini on Friday October 02, 2009 @12:22AM
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You're saying a lot of things here but one of your questions is worth answering:
>Do these things really directly descend from pure AI reasearch(sic)?
With the exception of Google's search engine [with whose internals I am not familiar], I can answer an emphatic "Yes". And so would any knowledgeable current or past researcher in those fields. The early AI researchers did a hell of a lot of good work and much of it remains relevant.
As you demonstrate, many if not most people have no idea of what was actually done back then, much less the lineage of their income-tax software or the control system for their digital camera.
Despite funding cuts AI continued to be an interesting and productive field, and remains so today.
>Do these things really directly descend from pure AI reasearch(sic)?
With the exception of Google's search engine [with whose internals I am not familiar], I can answer an emphatic "Yes". And so would any knowledgeable current or past researcher in those fields. The early AI researchers did a hell of a lot of good work and much of it remains relevant.
As you demonstrate, many if not most people have no idea of what was actually done back then, much less the lineage of their income-tax software or the control system for their digital camera.
Despite funding cuts AI continued to be an interesting and productive field, and remains so today.