Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!borasky From: borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain Message-ID: <15367@ogicse.ogi.edu> Date: 25 Dec 90 06:44:43 GMT References: <37034@cup.portal.com> Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR Lines: 33 In article erich@near.cs.caltech.edu (Erich Schneider) writes: >We've given the AI paradigm 50 years and a lot of grant money. What >have they given us back? Let's go on to something new and useful. The AI paradigm has given us: 1. The LISP language and its descendants. 2. Expert systems 3. Neural networks 4. Fuzzy logic 5. Theorem provers 6. Algebraic computing 7. Heuristic solutions to real-world problems with no feasible exact solution 8. Herbert Simon, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky 9. Insight into how the human mind works 10. Some really AWESOME toys -- machines that play chess, machines that solve mazes, machines that emulate Rogerian analysis, etc. What has the numerical analysis paradigm given us? 1. Automobiles that get slightyly better gas mileage than a 1958 FORD. 2. Airliners that last a few years longer than a DC-3 3. Bridges that fall down slightly less often than those designed with slide rules 4. Buildings bigger than the Empire State building, but not much 5. Nuclear weapons 6. Stealth aircraft 7. Spy satellite image processing 8. Program trading 9. Basic insight into the laws of nature 10. Weather predictions slightly better than the Old Farmers' Almanac. I'm sure if someone thinks about it, he can come up with a similar top ten for the third major paradigm of computing -- records, files, COBOL, your electric bill, etc.