Thursday, February 28, 2008

CYC Game

Help contribute to the Cyc research by playing the game here:

http://game.cyc.com/

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Web 3.0 and Cyc

A great New York times article that meshes Web 3.0 with Doug's Cyc project and how cyc is learning to answer spooky questions like "Which American city would be most vulnerable to an anthrax attack during summer?"

article here

AI History

Here is an article that was published in AI magazine in 2005. It was authored by Bruce G. Buchanan. It gives a short summary on the progression of AI here.

MIT AI Course on Open Course Ware

A great resource from a renowned institution, MIT.

I think this could be a good primary source for defining AI. It is the OCW version of their course 6.034.

The course is here and here.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Graph Theory, Algorithms

Graph Theory- is the study of graphs; mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of vertices. A graph may be undirected, meaning that there is no distinction between the two vertices associated with each edge, or its edges may be directed from one vertex to another

Algorithms- is a type of effective method in which a definite list of well-defined instructions for completing a task, when given an initial state, will proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end-state. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate randomness.

Both Graph Theory and Algorithms are directly related to Doug Lenat's ideas of artificial intelligence.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Doug Lenat.....

Doug Lenat is the MAN!!! and he Loves this class!!

He is a prominent reasearcher of artifical intelligance, he is the CEO of Cycorp.

He has also worked in military simulations and published a critique of conventional random-mutation Darwinism based on his experience with Eurisko.

"Intelligence is ten million rules." Doug Lenat



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