AI Research

AI Winter - The Setbacks of 1974 - The Lighthill Report
... by Parliament to evaluate the state of AI research in the United Kingdom ... His report, now called the Lighthill report, criticized the utter failure of AI to achieve its "grandiose objectives." He concluded that nothing being done in AI couldn't be done in other sciences ... the problem of "combinatorial explosion" or "intractability", which implied that many of AI's most successful algorithms would grind to a halt on real world problems and were only suitable for solving "toy ...

The Theory Of Artificial Intelligence
... Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines or software, and is also a branch of computer science that studies and develops intelligent machines and software ... Major AI researchers and textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that ... AI research is highly technical and specialised, deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other ...

The Theory Of Artificial Intelligence - History
... The field of AI research was founded at a conference on the campus of Dartmouth College in the summer of 1956 ... and Herbert Simon, became the leaders of AI research for many decades ... By the middle of the 1960s, research in the U.S ...

The Theory Of Artificial Intelligence - Goals - Deduction, Reasoning, Problem Solving
... Early AI researchers developed algorithms that imitated the step-by-step reasoning that humans use when they solve puzzles or make logical deductions ... By the late 1980s and 1990s, AI research had also developed highly successful methods for dealing with uncertain or incomplete information, employing concepts from probability and economics ... The search for more efficient problem-solving algorithms is a high priority for AI research ...

Lasting Effects of The AI Winters - AI Funding
... Primarily the way researchers and economists judge the status of an AI winter is by reviewing which AI projects are being funded, how much and by whom ... called EU-FP7 provide much of the funding for AI research in the US and European Union ... As of 2007, DARPA is soliciting AI research proposals under a number of programs including The Grand Challenge Program, Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), "Human Assisted Neural Devices (SN07-43 ...