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Have a look at notability


Templates I need

See Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup See Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles

History of artificial intelligence

  1. Need to show how The money pours in in England and elsewhere.

Peacocks, weasals, etc

Potential WP:PEA

  1. #Turing's Test: "electrifying" -- find reference and quote it in a footnote.
  2. #The first AI Winter 1974-1980: "devastating" -- shown later in article.

Potential WP:AWW

  1. #Birth of AI: "widely considered" -- shown by references: : "the conference is generally recognized as the official birth date of the new science of artificial intelligence." Crevier in that reference.
  2. #The Golden Years: "astonishing to most people" --- fixed with reference, but we need to find a great 60s era hype quote from the mainstream media.
  3. #AI Underground: "many researchers" -- shown in the following quote.
  4. #Intelligent agents: "widely" -- shown by references

Potential Editorializing

  1. #Reasoning as Search: "(with some hubris)" -- self evident.

Skippable things

  1. consider adding back in other influences (Chomsky, Game Theory, etc.) with Buchanan and/or Russell & Norvig as a source
  2. I'd like to use the anecdote: "I've just taught a machine to think!" about Logic Theorist.
  3. Add long Simon quote in "Optimism" and write "These predictions would not come true."

Better references

  1. Could use a reference on computer power in the 50s for History of artificial intelligence#Birth of artificial intelligence 1943-1956.
  2. Could back up a few more references with the NRC report. (under "the money")
  3. Find more references for "AI Underground" -- try [1] and [2].
  4. Use more references (check out AI Now) for "AI behind the scenes"
  5. Need a source for sentence "These successes were not due to some revolutionary new paradigm, but mostly on the tedious application of engineering skill and on the tremendous power of computers today."

For peer review

  1. Prepare an argument why it has to be this long ...
  2. Change title of "moravec's dichotomy"
  3. Send it in for peer review and featured status.

Relationships to other pages

  1. Keep following links out and see where historical references and info are needed

Software agent Intelligent agent rational agent

  1. See Talk:Agent articles proposal
  2. Fix disambiguation page

Frank Rosenblatt

  1. Add information and sources from Crevier.
  2. Remove "disputed" tag.

Combinatorial explosion

  1. Talk page: isn't this really a concept that has solely to do with algorithms, named by Lighthill? Is this really a mathematical concept, or a property of certain algorithms. A reference would be nice.

Mark as needing references.

  1. Add text about algorithms that experience combinatorial explosions. Disambiguate and expand.

Moore's Law

  1. Need an opening graphic that shows transistor density but not on a log-log graph.
  1. Add section on Sociological and Historical Impact of increasing computer power.
  2. Make a graph showing transportation speeds, engine horsepower, etc., for comparison.
  3. Shouldn't it list a larger and more logical set of exponential trends?

Timeline of artificial intelligence

  1. Add (referenced) events from History of artificial intelligence
  2. Add other events from crevier
  3. Reference existing events

AI Winter

  1. Add an "earlier" early episode The abandonment of AI by IBM in 1956"

The Dartmouth conference represents a change in support for AI, from private industry to government[1]

  1. Mention "Licklidder policy of "funding the man" and the freedom it allowed. Use moxon's reference to put a button on Darpa's funding deal. Russell & Norvig also mention this.
  2. May want to kill section called AI Now
  1. Add major section on the pathology of AI Winters.

- Optimism/Exagerrate - Problems McCarthy against optimism: "it would be a great relief to the rest of the workers in AI if the inventors of new general formalisms would express their hopes in a more guarded form than has sometimes been the case"[2]

Artificial Intelligence

  • Buy Norvig & Stewarts Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and rewrite article.

Philosophy of artificial intelligence

  • Buy Haugeland Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea and rewrite article.

Moravec's paradox

  1. Change the name ... this is going to bite me in the ass at some point.
  2. Need to quote Shakespeare or Locke about the "highness" of reason. This gives a better idea of what's a stake here. The lead needs rewriting.
  3. Link in and out of "embodiment" or whatever is the key article there.
  4. Illustration idea: take pictures of Jo demonstrating the different kinds of skills.

Rational agent

  1. Merge with Homo economicus

Self-aware

  1. Add page self-awareness (science fiction)

Neats vs. scruffies

  1. Add more historical information: notably the victory of neats with the work of Judea Pearl and the agent model

Commonsense knowledge

  1. Find a reference
  2. Write article

Computational intelligence

  1. Fix it to match my comments on Talk page

Conceptual metaphor

  1. Use my references and examples -- fill it out, make it clear.

Other history of AI articles

  1. Go through articles about Minsky, STUDENT, etc, and flesh them out with information from Crevier and my other sources

Categories

  1. Follow links out of "History of AI" until you have everything in the category.

Music

  1. Combine Chord chart, rhythmic notation, slash notation, nashville notation into one article.

Other AI rewrites

  1. Write layman's introduction to the implications of NP-Completeness. This could go in Moore's Law, or in Combinatorial explosion or both.
  2. Improve AI effect with specific examples of applications
  3. Organize Chinese Room into a more specific set of objections, especially Churchland's and Dennett's 'Theory of evolution' argument.
  4. Add this to Singularity
In an interview on C-Net, John McCarthy dismissed Kurzweil's singularity as "nonsense" and added "I don't think Kurzweil has any ideas that have any potential to do that."[3] McCarthy has been a leader in artificial intelligence since it's inception, but unlike many of his contemporaries, has been reluctant to make predicitions.

Unused References

  • Campbell, Jeremy (1989). The Improbable Machine. Simon and Schuster.
  • Feigenbaum, Edward A. (1983). The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World. Michael Joseph. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |code= ignored (help)
  • Jon Doyle (1983) "A Society of Mind", CMU Department of Computer Science Tech. Report #127.
  • John Markoff, "Brainy Robots Start Stepping Into Daily Life", The New York Times July 18, 2006, Section A, Page 1
  • Harvey Newquist, The Brain Makers, Sams Publishing, 1994. ISBN 0-672-30412-0

Other Thoughts on the History of AI

The Dartmouth conference represents a change in support for AI, from private industry to government[4]

McCarthy against optimism: "it would be a great relief to the rest of the workers in AI if the inventors of new general formalisms would express their hopes in a more guarded form than has sometimes been the case"[5]

Notes

  1. ^ "Thus, the activities surrounding the Dartmouth workshop were, at the outset, linked with the cutting-edge research at a leading private research laboratory (AT&T Bell Laboratories) and a rapidly emerging industrial giant (IBM). Researchers at Bell Laboratories and IBM nurtured the earliest work in AI and gave young academic researchers like McCarthy and Minsky credibility that might otherwise have been lacking. Moreover, the Dartmouth summer research project in AI was funded by private philanthropy and by industry, not by government. The same is true for much of the research that led up to the summer project." from Developments in Artificial Intelligence from (NRC 1999)
  2. ^ McCarthy 1974
  3. ^ See Getting Machines to Think Like Us
  4. ^ "Thus, the activities surrounding the Dartmouth workshop were, at the outset, linked with the cutting-edge research at a leading private research laboratory (AT&T Bell Laboratories) and a rapidly emerging industrial giant (IBM). Researchers at Bell Laboratories and IBM nurtured the earliest work in AI and gave young academic researchers like McCarthy and Minsky credibility that might otherwise have been lacking. Moreover, the Dartmouth summer research project in AI was funded by private philanthropy and by industry, not by government. The same is true for much of the research that led up to the summer project." from Developments in Artificial Intelligence from (NRC 1999)
  5. ^ McCarthy 1974

References

National Research Council (1999), Funding a Revolution:Government Support for Computing Research, National Academy Press

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