| . . | Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. |
I have worked in Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 1991, and I have collected definitions of AI and intelligent programs.
Herbert Simon: We call programs intelligent if they exhibit behaviors that would be regarded intelligent if they were exhibited by human beings.
Elaine Rich: AI is the study of techniques for solving exponentially hard problems in polynomial time by exploiting knowledge about the problem domain.
Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight: AI is the study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better.
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig: [AI] has to do with smart programs, so let's get on and write some.
Avron Barr and Edward Feigenbaum: Physicists ask what kind of place this universe is and seek to characterize its behavior systematically. Biologists ask what it means for a physical system to be living. We in AI wonder what kind of information-processing system can ask such questions.
Claudson Bornstein: AI is the science of common sense.
Douglas Baker: AI is the attempt to make computers do what people think computers cannot do.
Astro Teller: AI is the attempt to make computers do what they do in the movies.
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