Crazy But Able

Check out the pictures accompanying the article. No mention of the uncanny valley though.
It occured to me while reading this article that different cultures will make androids which act like an average person of that culture. So not only do roboticists have to worry about the uncanny valley, but they have […]

Last time we looked at symbolic logic and how it can be used for knowledge representation. Now we’re going to look at some problems with using symbolic logic for representing knowledge in a hypothetical AI program.
The first problem with symbolic logic is that nobody can agree on what symbols to use. […]

Other folks musing on expert systems reasoned like this. Expert systems have problems, deep problems, because they encode all of the knowledge in the system right up front! It’s easy to seem intelligent when someone has given you all of your intelligence. What we need are computers that can see problems and […]

One of the first real successes of the AI community was in the field of expert systems. The idea goes like this: what if we could distill all of the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of an expert in a field and put all of that concentrated knowledge into a computer program? Then […]

I’m going to write a series of posts on artificial intelligence. I don’t know how many posts there will be, I’m just going to keep writing about it until I’m done. I have many thoughts and opinions on the subject, as I’ve been thinking about it off and on for about 14 years […]