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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title AI in the 21st century: with historical reflections
Organization Unit
Authors
  • M Lungarella
  • F Iida
  • J C Bongard
  • Rolf Pfeifer
Editors
  • M Lungarella
  • F Iida
  • J C Bongard
  • Rolf Pfeifer
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (Festschrift)
Series Name Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
ISBN 978-3-540-77295-8
Number 4850
Place of Publication Berlin, Heidelberg
Publisher Springer
Page Range 1 - 8
Date 2007
Abstract Text The discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Half of a century has passed, and AI has turned into an important field whose influence on our daily lives can hardly be overestimated. The original view of intelligence as a computer program – a set of algorithms to process symbols – has led to many useful applications now found in internet search engines, voice recognition software, cars, home appliances, and consumer electronics, but it has not yet contributed significantly to our understanding of natural forms of intelligence. Since the 1980s, AI has expanded into a broader study of the interaction between the body, brain, and environment, and how intelligence emerges from such interaction. This advent of embodiment has provided an entirely new way of thinking that goes well beyond artificial intelligence proper, to include the study of intelligent action in agents other than organisms or robots. For example, it supplies powerful metaphors for viewing corporations, groups of agents, and networked embedded devices as intelligent and adaptive systems acting in highly uncertain and unpredictable environments. In addition to giving us a novel outlook on information technology in general, this broader view of AI also offers unexpected perspectives into how to think about ourselves and the world around us. In this chapter, we briefly review the turbulent history of AI research, point to some of its current trends, and to challenges that the AI of the 21st century will have to face.
Official URL http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-3-540-77295-8
Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/978-3-540-77296-5_1
Other Identification Number merlin-id:382
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