With all my AI posts lately, I'm sorry I hadn't realized that the May 2006 issue of the CACM had a theme on the language-action perspective, a critique by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores that dates from 1986 whose essential point the CACM summarizes neatly:

[S]killful action always occurs …

Exploring Artificial Intelligence is an exciting prospect for non-professional programming (it's a quite rare part of professional programming). Rather than criticize others for being On Intelligence) Architecture on Tic-Tac-Toe

Naturally Speaking 8 ), the underlying processing is still realtime (and, last time I checked, single threaded). This is foolish! I would …

Rick Strom has a nice page showing how he used genetic programming to create a path-finding algorithm. This is real genetic programming, which differs from a genetic algorithm in that GP evolves an actual behavior tree of (potentially) arbitrary size, while a GA evolves the optimal parameters for a complex …

Snap! Ayende Rahein has shown how Active Record can be used to implement a rules engine. I'd had some thoughts about backward-chaining and LINQ lately as part of a forthcoming post, it's nice to see some groundwork laid.

BTW, this is via Sam Gentile, whose \<a href="http://www.knowing …

In an earlier post, I was thoughtlessly harsh about the finalists in Microsoft's "Made in Express" contest. It's come to my attention that at least several of the contestants felt insulted by the post. To them I apologize: I wish them nothing but the best and envy them their enthusiasm …

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Daniel Crenna, one of the finalists in the "Made in Express" contest, felt I went too far in dismissing …

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9:11 AM On the suggestion of John Lam, I bought Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence and pretty much read it through in one sitting. That was possible because it's a very accessible book and also because, to a large …