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From: sggill@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Stuart Gill)
Subject: Re: Why not buliding an AI-OS?
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In article <4jrt28$1cb@voyager.iii.org.tw>, brian <brian@ksts.seed.net.tw>
wrote:

>   Why not buliding an Artificial Intelligence Operation System ?
>   What elements does an AI-OS need ?
> 
>   Could anyone tell us ?
> 
> 
> Fox, brian@ksts.seed.net.tw

I think we need to make a distinction between the two possible meanings of
this.  The first and most likely is that AI (traditional or nouvelle) are
embedded into an OS to assist the user.  The second possibility is that an
OS is built to support AI applications.  I have seen posts from both
meanings so far though though I feel that the first (AI used for
supporting the OS) is a coming reality.  As a previous poster mentioned
the next generation of the MacOS (System 8 or Copland) will provide some
simple forms of AI support in the area of interface agents and a
semi-intelligent help system (plan recognition & planning).  The biggest
difficulty is that traditional AI systems are generally large and slow and
NOT designed for a production product but more for a research system.

Stuart

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Stuart G. Gill             sggill@neumann.uwaterloo.ca                
Research Interests: agents, information retrieval, reactive planning
Macintosh users,"on average are brighter, cooler, hipper, more intelligent".
