Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 09:42
in Earth & Climate
The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for a relatively modest set of actual accomplishments. Now, some of the pioneers of the field, joined by later generations of thinkers, are gearing up for a massive 'do-over' of the whole idea.