Re: Novel research in Artificial Intelligence?

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:14:42 GMT, Michael Olea <oleaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Svante wrote:
>
>> Hi. I'm a freelancing science journalist preparing an article about
>> the most recent development in Artificial Intelligence. My starting
>> point will be the hopes in the early days of AI-research and a
>> follow-up on the state-of-the-art AI research done today. One central
>> question is, if there is (or will be in the near future) a machine that
>> will pass the "Turing test". This is a hotly debated issue and I
>> will try to steer clear of the more sophisticated philosophical
>> problems raised.
>>
>> So what I need to know is: Where can find research in the forefront and
>> are there key persons in the field that might be useful to talk to?
>>
>> All hints and tips appreciated
>> /Svante
>
>Some key people to talk to:
>
>Marvin Minsky
>Pei Wang
>Peter Voss
>Dileep George
>Ilya Nemenman
>
>You might want to post your query here:
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy/
>
>and here:
>
>http://www.onintelligence.org/forum/
>
>You can learn about Pei's work here:
>
>http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/peiwang/papers.html
>
>Peter's work here:
>
>http://www.adaptiveai.com/
>
>Dileep's work here:
>
>http://www.numenta.com/
>
>Ilya's work here:
>
>http://www.menem.com/ilya/
>
>Note: although Ilya is working on "computational biology" there is a strong
>focus on learning. His dissertation is called "Information Theory and
>Learning: A Physical Approach". A recent paper is: "Fluctuation-Dissipation
>Theorem and Models of Learning".
>
>And you can learn about Marvin's work here:
>
>http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
>
>Good, luck.

One could make a case for the others but there is certainly nothing
*novel* about Marvin Minsky's research. Sorry.

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
.

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