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Artificial intelligence (AI) is both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it.

Major AI textbooks define artificial intelligence as 'the study and design of intelligent agents,'where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as 'the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.'

Among the traits that researchers hope machines will exhibit are reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. General intelligence (or 'strong AI') has not yet been achieved and is a long-term goal of AI research.

AI research uses tools and insights from many fields, including computer science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, ontology, operations research, economics, control theory, probability, optimization and logic.[7] AI research also overlaps with tasks such as robotics, control systems, scheduling, data mining, logistics, speech recognition, facial recognition and many others.

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence)

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    • Artificial intelligence (AI) is both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it.

      Major AI textbooks define artificial intelligence as 'the study and design of intelligent agents,'where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as 'the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.'

      Among the traits that researchers hope machines will exhibit are reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. General intelligence (or 'strong AI') has not yet been achieved and is a long-term goal of AI research.

      AI research uses tools and insights from many fields, including computer science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, ontology, operations research, economics, control theory, probability, optimization and logic.[7] AI research also overlaps with tasks such as robotics, control systems, scheduling, data mining, logistics, speech recognition, facial recognition and many others.

      Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence)

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      KurzweilAI.Net (Artificial Intelligence)

      KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas.
      http://www.kurzweilai.net/

      Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

      The Intelligent Agent Book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. The leading textbook in Artificial Intelligence: definitive, comprehensive, and readable. Used in over 500 schools. Over 75 million pages sold! We're working on a second edition; it should be ready in early 2002, but we can't give an exact date.
      http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

      Open Mind Initiative

      The Open Mind Initiative is a novel world-wide collaborative effort to develop 'intelligent' software. Open Mind collects information from people like you -- non-expert 'netizens' -- in order to teach computers the myriad things which we all know and which underlie our general intelligence but which we usually take for granted. Current computers are notoriously poor in these areas. You can participate by answering questions, contributing...
      http://www.openmind.org/

      Navy Center for Applied Research

      Research and development efforts designed to address the application of artificial intelligence technology and techniques to critical Navy and national problems.
      http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/

      AI Lab Univ of Zurich

      AI Lab of Univ of Zurich, which provides one of the very best pages devoted to Artificial Intelligence, realtime and embedded systems, and other useful information.
      http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/ailab/

      Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

      Brooks, a leading 'roboticist' and computer science professor at MIT, believes that robots in the future will probably be nothing like such all-knowing brain machines as 2001's HAL, nor will they resemble the sleek cyborgs of other Hollywood nightmares. Rather, they will be simple, ubiquitous, curious little machines that will have more in common with humans than one might think.
      http://www.amazon.com

      comp.ai.genetic FAQ (ftp site)

      This FTP site contains the FAQ for the comp.ai.genetic usenet newsgroup.
      ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.ai.genetic

      A. L. I. C. E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation

      Promoting the development and adoption of ALICE and AIML Free Software. The free A.L.I.C.E. AIML includes a knowledge base of approximately 41,000 categories.
      http://www.alicebot.org/

      What is Artificial Intelligence?

      This FAQ on AI answers basic questions on AI, and discusses its brances and applications. It also gives a list of references on the subject.
      http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html

      comp.ai

      Newsgroup devoted to AI topics.
      news:comp.ai

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