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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (51646)	6/8/2002 9:36:38 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 54805

re: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Malcolm, << you speak of AI as a technology that never crossed the chasm. >> I plead guilty. I did that. <g> So did Moore: One of the great cover stories of the early eighties was Artificial Intelligence (AI) - brains in a box. Everybody was writing about it and many prestigious customer organizations were jumping on the bandwagons of companies like Teknowledge, Symbolics, Intellicorp. <snip> ... Today however AI is relegated to the trash heap. Despite the fact that it was and is a very hot technology <snip> ... it has simply never caught on as a product for the mainstream market. - "Crossing the Chasm", RE, 1998 page 22 - << Indeed it never became an isolated single product >> Essentially that is what Moore was getting at (and I was attempting to as well). Most big systems today try as much as possible to incorporate "smarts", i.e. the flexibility of human thinking as opposed to the earlier inflexibility of the machine. Every programmer studies AI in some CS course(s) and is influenced by it as well as by the general atmosphere that we have to get the systems to react like human beings might. - "Crossing the Chasm", RE, 1998 page 22 - As Moore put it: Today, although the technology of AI is alive and licking, underlying such currently popular manifestations of so-called expert systems, and object oriented programming, no one uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" in their marketing efforts. And a company like Intellicorp, which struggled desperately to be profitable as an AI firm, has now backed completely away from that identity. Best, - Eric -

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (51646)	6/9/2002 7:59:49 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 54805

Malcolm, My apologies for the earlier post on which I attributed your comments to G. Moore. You (Not Moore) said: Most big systems today try as much as possible to incorporate "smarts", i.e. the flexibility of human thinking as opposed to the earlier inflexibility of the machine. Every programmer studies AI in some CS course(s) and is influenced by it as well as by the general atmosphere that we have to get the systems to react like human beings might. Moore put it this way: Today, although the technology of AI is alive and kicking, underlying such currently popular manifestations of so-called expert systems, and object oriented programming, no one uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" in their marketing efforts. And a company like Intellicorp, which struggled desperately to be profitable as an AI firm, has now backed completely away from that identity. - "Crossing the Chasm", RE, 1998 page 22 - Best, - Eric -