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[Wired.com] 2.10: Street Cred: Crevier, a PhD from artificial intelligence hotbed MIT, re-creates the personal disputes, ideological battles, and pervasive grandstanding within the AI community and provides an intriguing look at a discipline that is still suffering from growing pains. In recounting the dialog between conflicting researchers, he describes "lasting grudges and real tooth grinding" and offers anecdotes of scientists booed at debates.
[Zenofdesign.com] Zen of Design»Blog Archive » You Don’t Want Realistic AI: (Thats also the sort of little touch Blizzard excels at, incidentally.) But yeah, thats a one-off effect and its quite likely that there are a couple of dozen Easter eggs I played through without seeing while grinding my way to 60.
[Lineman.net] In Defense of Artificial Intelligence: VII. Embodied Intelligence ...: Anderson believes that such hybrid systems, with mental representations cooperating with embodied influences, could lead to a more promising future for advancements in AI.(13) The hardest part, however, may be in trying to find the correct balance between the two. He writes, the issue may be “just exactly how much (and which parts) of intelligence can be accounted for by representation and computation, and how much by reaction and interaction.”(14) A usefully illustration of how this synthesis may work in the human mind was put forth by Prem with his example of “chair.” While the standard embodied experience with the world and sufficient enough information will enable an intelligent agent to identify a standard table chair as an instance of a “chair,” it may be only through the abstract mental reasoning ability of a human to identify a stool, bench, or tree stump as also being able to fulfill requirements of “chair.”(15) This abstract reasoning is precisely what is the subject of all the research involved with mental representation and cognitive activity.
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