"Tim, AI is a much bandied about term, I agree. A true intelligence? is ambiguous, but 'perform like a living system' is probably a better term. AAfter all a frog survives and reacts to preserve it's life and yet cannot see things that are stationary and yet is not intelligent as we see it, yet it endures. Same for the Ant, bee and many other living systems that easily beat the best of our machines in their life tasks. In it's world that is a survival trait. Of course the stork learns to stand very still until it sees the frog make a move...and then it tries to spear the frog within the frogs reaction period. Many living systems, as in CV attempt to process data and changes in data to emulate a predator/prey situation where there is a need to recognize the shape of predator/prey, faces, patterns trextures.
I can see this being of value in machine navigation, or pick and place assembly robots etc.."
None of these points about storks and bees and ants is what AI is about. I refer you to any of the textbooks on AI, including Norvig and Russell, Luger, Nilson, etc.
(I was at a small conference a few weeks ago with the guy who coined the term AI and who soon thereafter invented LISP. Believe me, AI may or may not be the ideal term, in that folks like you jabber about it being about "true intelligence," but it has a well-understood meaning.)
"I am getting towards a better understanding of CV, but both Dan, -Z and I could do without the derogation."
I'm happy that you're making progress toward understanding computer vision, at at least the high school book report level, but I/we are not your teachers. Not with the Web and so many books offering such easy means of getting an education.
As for "derogation," I only denigrate you folks because you are liars and twits.
--Tim May |
