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Artificial Intelligence 2.0

Chris Kaplan
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MIT has launched the Mind Machine Project, or MMP, which is aimed at revamping artificial intelligence. The project, consisting of a collaboration of two dozen professors, students and post-docs spans five generations of AI research and hopes to build upon the science that started over fifty years ago. The goal is to fuse together new fields of research, such as computational neuroscience and software programming, to create a hybrid discipline that integrates a comparative approach to evolve the science of AI.

Research on AI has become stagnate with early hopes of the emerging science failing to meet its desired goal.  According to scientists, there are three areas that need to be reworked in order for evolution of the field to continue, dealing with mind, memory, and body. Difficulties in AI research lie with trying to mirror and create the complex evolutionary system of the human mind. This means developing a computer system that isn't programed by writing a series of code, but can have the malleability of the human mind where information happens everywhere and all the time. As our knowledge of consciousness and the workings of the brain increases, an "ecology of models" can be created that will allow the AI research and experimentation to respond and solve problems in many different ways.

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Cognitive science

Submitted by Lightfiend on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 20:16.
"The goal is to fuse together new fields of research, such as computational neuroscience and software programming, to create a hybrid discipline that integrates a comparative approach to evolve the science of AI." Hasn't this kind of integration been happening for some time now? Either way I am sure the folks at MIT, with all the talent they have over there, are making great progress. I am particularly fond of the work of Marvin Minsky. http://www.theemotionmachine.com

Why? If someone told me they

Submitted by mountain wind on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 23:40.
Why? If someone told me they figured out how my brain works and have all the blueprints to make another one, I'd feel, or feel that I am percieved as, cheap, disposable, stripped of mystery. I've had two full-cycle culture shocks in my life and at 23 I just don't get the "Why" of all self-evident stuff of fashion.

Jeopardy champions to face off with artificial intelligence

Submitted by AmberQ on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 03:35.
Artificial intelligence has been a fiery topic in science fact and science fiction for many years. In sensible terms, AI could change the way such fields as medicine operate. AI research is highly technical and specialized, deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other. Subfields have grown up around particular institutions, the work of individual researchers and also the solution of specific problems. Now the Associated Press accounts that “Jeopardy” producers and IBM want to test the service of a supercomputer in opposition to two game show champions. If the computer wins do you think they will take out a cash advance to pay him or her?