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From: Jonas Kvist <c93jonkv>
Subject: Re: The only true AI, in my opinion
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Sorry to tell you, but AI is not about creating intelligent beeings. That
thought was abandoned in the sixties. The field of AI is mostly concerned with
algorithms that solves proplem in a way that feels more natural to us than just
a blind search for an answer.
 Take for example a NP-complete problem. It can be shown that such problems
can't be solved in any reasonable time, when they expand that is, with an
ordinary search. But if we give the computer some knowledge about the problem
and its domain, and a searchtool that takes advantage of the knowledge, we
might solve it. Therefore an AI-system does not need knowledge about everything
in the world but the domain it is meant to work in.
 Try to consult an introductionary book in AI and have a look there. The
preface should tell you some more about what AI is, and what it is not.

/Jonas

