http://monicasmind.com Exploring Artificial Intuition Mon, 10 May 2010 06:11:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Introduction Computers are Logic based devices. We used to believe implementing Intelligence in computers would be easy because we thought brains were built on Logic. AI researchers and programmers were especially skilled at logical, step-by-step Reasoning and analysis and when thinking about thinking, all they saw was Logic and Reasoning. But ... http://monicasmind.com/?p=188 A million man-years has been spent on Artificial Intelligence. (1) Since the beginning in the early 1950s we've gone through dozens of paradigms and thousands of approaches trying to build software systems and robots that would behave "more intelligently", more like humans do. This research has given us many advanced programming ... http://monicasmind.com/?p=78 It seems like there are hundreds of ideas about how to create an Artificial Intelligence. But if we examine the foundations of AI, and look at the tacit assumptions of historical AI projects, we discover something interesting. Before we even get into the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) field there are two ... http://monicasmind.com/?p=53 This blog entry elaborates on previously published material. The purpose of Intelligence is Prediction. Evolution of the ability to predict the behavior of other agents and the likelihood of phenomena in the environment improved survival rates and created a strong evolutionary pressure to develop better and longer term predictions. This is ... http://monicasmind.com/?p=48 I am the current facilitator of the San Francisco Bay Area AI Meetup. At these meetups I have occasionally been approached by students considering AI as a career path. They want to know what kind of AI research and projects to pursue and what to study. It would be easiest to ... http://monicasmind.com/?p=1