Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Classical AI and GOFAI
  • Theorem Proving and Declarative Programming
  • Language Processing, Semantics, and Formal Reasoning
  • The Reaction against GOFAI
• Computational Intelligence, Situated Intelligence, and Connectionism
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Agent Software
• Machine Learning
• Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems
• Knowledge Representation
  • Ad Hoc and Formal Representation
  • Metadata and Semantic Networks
  • Standards and Ontologies
• Semantic Web
  • Feature Extraction and Automated Tagging
  • Microformats and Other Structured Metadata
  • Crowdsourced Metadata and Folksonomies
  • Types of Queries and Required Technologies
• Bayesian Belief Networks and Statistical Reasoning
• Artificial Life
• Cellular Automata and Continuous Automata
• Optimization and Heuristics
  • Optimization and Classical AI
  • Optimization and Computational Intelligence
• Swarm Intelligence
• Artificial Evolution and Genetic Algorithms

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
  • Military Missions
  • The Grand Challenges
  • Information Management
  • The Complexities of Life and Business
  • The End of Privacy
• General Constraints
  • Challenges in Representing Knowledge
  • Trust and Believability
  • The Uncanny Valley
  • Need for Intuition
• Synergistic Technologies
  • Computing Power and Parallel Processing
  • Sensors and Actuators
  • Robotics and Mechatronics
  • Neuroelectronics
• Competing Technologies
  • Conventional Software Procedures
  • A Semantic Web without AI
• Required Resources
  • Computers and Networks
  • Talented People
  • R&D Funding
• Regulatory Factors
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Robot Safety and Liability
  • Restrictions on Cryptography

Areas to Monitor

• Machine-Readable Data
• Pattern Recognition
• Society of Mind
• Believable Agents
• Competing Approaches to AI
• Grand Challenges
• Human Acceptance
• Self-Awareness

Implications of Commercialization

• Gradual Emergence (A)
• Human-Machine Collaboration (B)
• Breakthrough (C)
• Intrusive Systems (D)
• Long Childhood (A+B)
• Redemption (B+C)
• Machine Overlords (C+D)

Opportunities

• Applications
  • Transportation
  • Robotics
  • Financial Services and Procurement
  • Health and Medicine
  • Physical and Network Security
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Personal-Assistant Software
  • E-Mail Filtering and Message Prioritization
  • Meeting, Document, and Video Summaries
  • Game Play and Virtual Environments
  • Content Production and Advertising Automation
  • Logistics, Manufacturing, and Process Scheduling
• Business Models

Players

Updates

Viewpoints Features

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