   Quick summary of AI
  As a computer science major i have deep fascination with all things related to AI.  However it is also my impression that that AI researchs nowaday are about aspects of AI that is really the peripheries of the main problem, like building stupid little robots, expert systems, etc... generally things that has limited usage or under limited domain(and evenly then the performance is mediocre).  My question is how far are we from having a general mathematical model of intelligence?  What is the current level of AI capable of doing?Turing predicted that we would have that by 2000, but then i suppose he vasted overestimated the intelligence of human. 
  Did you read this thread?   Kami no Itte ga ore ni zettai naru! ;quote:Original post by Falen  My question is how far are we from having a general mathematical model of intelligence?We don''t even have an accepted definition of intelligence, never mind a mathematical model. [ MSVC Fixes | STL Docs | SDL | Game AI | Sockets | C++ Faq Lite | Boost  Asking Questions | Organising code files | My stuff | Tiny XML | STLPort] ;  We have mathematical models of some aspects of intelligence, but not all... and certainly not most. For example, the Principle of Maximum Expected Utility is a model of Rational Action. An intelligence agent should be able to act rationally if it chooses to. Funnily enough though, humans most often don''t act rationally, particularly when emotions are involved! Does that make us less intelligent? Cheers,Timkin ;  AI needs a emotional model to act with, or else it isn''t AI. Human I (Intelligence) needs thousands of variables for each emotional chance. If you attacked a enemy base, he probably will be angry at you. Or of you save him from a attack he would love you (The AI of course) ;quote:Original post by Falen  Turing predicted that we would have that by 2000, but then i suppose he vasted overestimated the intelligence of human.   Actually I''d say he vastly underestimated the intelligence of human if he thought that by 2000 we''d just have it figured out!Just a thought.;quote:AI needs a emotional model to act with, or else it isn't AI. What do you define as emotions?  What makes emotions 'required' for rational decisions?   [edited by - BrianL on February 6, 2004 12:31:31 PM];  Maybe emotions are part of what causes us to make our rational decisions?  Sometimes decisions can seem irrational to our own personal survival, but not to family or species survival.  One article I can think of offhand is "Mothers and Others" in the Best American Science Writing 2002, which deals with this topic. ;  I know this is a simplification, but...Would a utility function that takes in to account the ''greater good'' be the same thing as emotions then? ;  Take the long word BrianL... 