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> The only commercially viable idea to come out of A.I., that I know of, is the expert system. And that turned out to be a pretty small market. Oh come on, you
by tansey 16y ago
> The only commercially viable idea to come out of A.I., that I know of, is the expert system. And that turned out to be a pretty small market.
Oh come on, you're baiting AI people (like me) here. :P
* Spam Filters (Bayesian networks)
* Video Game AI (game trees, fuzzy logic, etc)
* Natural Language Processing (Markov networks)
* Computational Finance (pattern recognition)
The list goes on, but the thing about AI is this: if an algorithm is successful, it quickly becomes a part of the industry or its own field and is forgotten.
- ggchappell 16y agoThanks for the correction.
- patio11 16y agoAmen. Stuff that doesn't work is "AI". Stuff that does work is "math". An algorithm to predict which humans are trustworthy enough to keep their promises to their creditors, which murders the performance of human beings, enabling billions of dollars of commerce which was previously economically unfeasible? AI. FICO? Oh, that is just some number crunching on a big source of data. Big deal. Come back when you get a chatbot working.
- lmkg 16y agoHofstadter said in GEB that "intelligence" is almost always defined implicitly as "whatever we currently think computers can't do," and that goalpost gets moved with astonishing regularity. The fact that a machine can do something means that it must not take intelligence, right? Thus, computers are able to do more and more that would have been thought impossible just 5 years ago, and we still convince ourselves that A.I. lies far beyond the horizon.
- robryan 16y agoWhen most people think AI they think systems being able to make decisions like humans, ones which use logic but we can't always deduce why they have been made. Once a deterministic route to a decision is shown it does now feel like math and a lot less like the grand ideas they had in their minds.