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From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: definition of AI? (was: who else isn't a science?)
Message-ID: <4971@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 88 16:13:25 GMT
Reply-To: ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University, Corvallis
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I've always liked my thesis advisors (Tom Dietterich) definition 
of AI.  It works so much better then any other I've seen.

	AI is the study of ill-defined computational methods.

This explains why once we understand something it is no
longer AI, it also explains why AI does not spend a lot of
time trying to verify that "this is the way OUR brain does it".
I think AI should be as defined above, and leave the strong/week
"AI" to cognitive science...

--ritchey ruff	ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- ...!tektronix!orstcs!ruffwork