Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!rutgers!orstcs!ruffwork 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 Lines: 12 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