On MetaOptimize, we were discussing the most influential ideas from 95-05: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/867/most-influential-ideas-1995-2005 http://met

On MetaOptimize, we were discussing the most influential ideas from 95-05: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/867/most-influential-ideas-1995-2005 http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/867/most-influential-id... And just to clarify: Most of the contributions have been in machine learning. Machines can learn a superset of AI (assuming that machines can learn AI) because there are a handful of things a machine can learn that a human can't.