[Tyler]

If I Only Had Brain
     

A NetworkWorld
article looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and ponders what
happened to it. In 1965 Herber Simon said AI was 20 years away. In 1967
Marvin Minsky said it was one generation away. So where it is? Self
aware, learning, thinking, feeling machines have turned out to be a lot
harder to build than anyone thought (in part because understanding
natural intelligence has taken a lot longer than anyone thought).
Instead AI has become a marketing
term used to describe random product features. Does your phone support
voice recognition? Let's call that AI! Does your web site say "if you
like this movie, you'll probably like these too"? Let's call that AI!
The article notes that even the Marriott hotel's kitchen scheduling
software claims to be "AI". So, next time your little robot bumps into a
wall, don't feel bad. It's probably closer to the true meaning of
artificial intelligence than anything else going by that label!
   

http://robots.net/article/2573.html