[comp.ai] definition of AI?

ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) (06/05/88)

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...

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