Friday, March 20, 2009

What is Artificial Intelligence? Soft Computing?

According to my AI professor, she mentioned that:

AI is a broad field, and means different things to different people. It is concerned with getting computers to do tasks that require human intelligence which require complex and sophisticated reasoning processes and knowledge.

If John McCarthy, the father of AI, were to coin a new phrase for "artificial intelligence" today, he would probably use "computational intelligence." (IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2002)

HOWEVER,
L.A. Zadeh claimed that computational intelligence is actually Soft Computing techniques (1994).