Thursday, August 19, 2010

Computers: Will They Ever Learn?

See original at Forbes.com

Have we plateaued in our progress on AI?
A computer that translates as well as a human, which is as good a definition as any of genuine artificial intelligence, is nowhere in sight.

This isn't just an issue for computer translation; it exists for just about all of the tough problems computers are working in: language, vision, robotics--even search, which is at the heart of the Web. Computers have become remarkably useful but are still a far cry from the dream of early computer pioneers of a machine so smart it would be indistinguishable from a human.

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