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AI Expert Newsletter

AI - The art and science of making computers do interesting things that are not in their nature.

September 2005

Introduction

Welcome to our September issue. The main feature this month continues August's AI-in-Python theme with a look at Python for robotics and the Pyro robot-control software. We also have a selection of quotes, and some computer-generated humour. As ever, comments and suggestions are welcome: please mail popx@j-paine.org.

 

An Arc Through AI Space

I came across a few of the quotes below while looking up references for another article. It's an article that hasn't yet worked out, but I thought it would be fun to use them to trace a path through the past - and perhaps future - development of AI. So here goes:

"Many smart people have been thinking about the AI problem for a long time.

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