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From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What actually is AI?
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Date: 4 Sep 90 17:29:00 GMT
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In article <38294@siemens.siemens.com> wood@jfred.siemens.edu (Jim Wood) writes:
>    Artificial Intelligence is a computer science and engineering
>    discipline which attempts to model human reasoning methods
>    computationally.
>

I think this is a pretty good definition, taken from the engineers point
of view.  A psychologist might take a different view of the definition/
purpose of AI.

One thing I'd include is that it's a cognitive psychological as well as
computer science and engineering discipline.  You have to know something
about how people think in order to model human reasoning methods.

- Jim Ruehlin