Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!tygra!buster!jon
From: jon@buster.ddmi.com (Jon Havel)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What Has Traditional AI Accomplished?
Message-ID: <93@buster.ddmi.com>
Date: 12 Oct 90 05:02:16 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.140751.11750@unislc.uucp>
Reply-To: jon@buster.UUCP (Jon Havel)
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Detroit, MI
Lines: 20

In article <1990Oct10.140751.11750@unislc.uucp> klb@unislc.uucp (Keith L. Breinholt) writes:
|>>
|>>	I know that this question may well start a big flame war, but
|>>I would like an idea of exactly what traditional AI has accomplished.
|>>

We'll, so far no one has given a "textbook" definition, so I'll venture
to give one from one of my AI textbooks.

   "Artificial intelligence is the study of mental faculties through
    the use of computational models"

["Artificial Intelligence", E. Charniak and D. McDermott, Addison Wesley,
  1987, pg 6]

This seems to be a very general definition which does not limit the 
study of AI to deveolping problem-solving system in the digital medium.

This definition also gives a hint that the study of AI can be carried out  
in many different disciplines [psychology, neurobiology, philosophy, etc].