Date: 6 Jul 84 20:57:06-PDT (Fri) From: sun!idi!kiessig @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: AI Reference Books Article-I.D.: idi.210 I received the following suggestions for reference/text books on AI in response to my article posted a while ago: AI Handbook by Feigenbaum et al. AI Journal (pretty technical) AI Magazine Artificial Intelligence by Elaine Rich (a textbook) (several people thought this was a good intro book) Artificial Intelligence by Patrick Winston (2nd ed.) Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man by Margaret Boden (less technical, more historical & quite thick) Expert Systems by Hayes-Roth, Waterman, et al. Fifth Generation by Feigenbaum et al. Problem Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson (1971) If you know of any others, I'd like to hear about them, or if you've read any of these any have comments (good or bad), that would be useful, too. Rick Kiessig {decvax, ucbvax}!sun!idi!kiessig {akgua, allegra, amd70, burl, cbosgd, dual, ihnp4}!idi!kiessig Phone: 408-996-2399 ------------------------------ Date: Fri 13 Jul 84 15:45:20-PDT From: C.S./Math Library Subject: How to get a Ph.D. in AI [Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.] Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe, and Gordon Plotkin have written a chapter in O'shea's and Eisenstadt's new book Artificial Intelligence Q335.A788 1984. The chapter, five, is titled how to get a Ph.D in AI. Anybody out there need some advice? ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jun 84 13:47:51-PDT (Fri) From: ihnp4!mgnetp!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!ecsvax!hes @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: Softwar Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2814 In the good old days, SAS only ran on IBM mainframes (360 & offspring) and so there was the operating system (OS!) to ask for the date. Most large corporations use the date for all sorts of operations, and so probably wouldn't want to set the wrong date at IPL (OS load) in order to avoid paying lease costs. (I believe the dissappearing act works.) Also SAS sells a lot of (quite good) tutorial and technical manuals and does a fair amount of answering bug requests over the phone and sending out newsletters, updates, etc. -- none of which would be readily available if you weren't making lease payments (I assume they would be suspicious ...) --henry schaffer genetics ncsu ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 84 8:18:53-PDT (Wed) From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: The Law Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2903 The Three Laws of Robotics for the 1980s (originally developed by the author and J. W. Godwin) 1. Never give a sucker an even break. 2. Never draw to an inside straight. 3. Don't get caught. D Gary Grady Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-4146 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary ------------------------------ Date: Thursday, 12 July 1984 18:11:35 EDT From: Purvis.Jackson@cmu-cs-cad.arpa Subject: Tests & Poems Regarding the Turing Test . . . Perhaps a more appropriate test of intelligence would be to have the machine play the part of the interogator. If it could distinguish properly between a monkey and a business administration major, then it would clearly exhibit intelligence. But on second thought, this wouldn't be a very good test, for it would be entirely possible for an intelligent human to fail to distinguish them. Hurrah for artificial intelligence, I think it be due time To off this unnatural diligence For activities more sublime. Methinks with rapid development, Applications become quite close, My mind entertains the President, Who surely could use a dose. ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jul 84 16:13:55-PDT (Mon) From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2879 Kilobaud magazine (now Microcomputing) ran an article ~5 years ago on ai and "humanlike conversation" in which the author concluded that humanlike dialog had little to do with intelligence, artificial or genuine. To accurately simulate human dialog required, among other things, WOM (write only memory) which was used to store anything not of direct immediate interest to the speaker. You could do a pretty good simulation of Eddy Murphie on the other end of a Turing test with a very simple algorithm. D Gary Grady Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-4146 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jul 84 10:24:53-PDT (Thu) From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. people Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2926 Someone took issue with a recent posting I made: >From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Tue Jul 10 10:38:42 1984 >> ...You could do a pretty good simulation of Eddy Murphie on the other >> end of a Turing test with a very simple algorithm. > >Anyone who believes this either doesn't understand the Turing test or has >a very low opinion of his own intelligence. Are you seriously claiming ... From the kidding tone of the rest of my posting, I assumed the :-) was quite unnecessary. Evidently I was wrong. So I retract my insult to Messrs Turing and Murphy, and suggest that a simple algorithm could substitute for "Cheech" Marin. OK, what about Marcel Marceau... :-) :-) :-) <-- Please note!! D Gary Grady Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-4146 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 84 12:37:51-PDT (Wed) From: ihnp4!hlexa!bev @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. p - (nf) Article-I.D.: hlexa.2559 Understanding? If a human passes a calculus test it means they can calculate correct answers to (some percentage of) the questions asked. If a computer does the same it means the same, but that's all. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 84 16:58:47-PDT (Wed) From: decvax!mit-athena!yba @ Ucb-Vax.arpa Subject: Re: Re: The Turing Test - machines vs. p - (nf) Article-I.D.: mit-athe.206 If a program passes a test in calculus the best we can grant it is that it can pass tests. In the famous program ANALOGY (Bobrow's I think) the computer "passes" geometric analogy tests. It does not seem to understand either geometry o