During the last years we can see how AI (Artificial Intelligence) is reappearing because of technological improvements. These improvements make possible the management of large groups of information with acceptable reply times. On the other hand, cost reductions in technology make possible that an investigation field like AI becomes to an inversion field closer to scale economies, that’s why it...

Intelligence without Representation is a seminal work in behaviour-based robotics. Brooks advocated the removal of explicit representations and engineered environments from the domain of his robotic intelligence experimentation, in favour of an evolutionary-inspired approach using layers of reactive behaviour that operated independently of each other. Brooks criticised the current progress in A...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science concerned with making computers behave like humans. At least this was the original idea. However, it turned out that this was no easy task to solve. This article aims to give a comprehensible review on the last 60 years of artificial intelligence taking a philosophical viewpoint. It is outlined what happened so far in AI, what is curr...

My particular focus is on commercial AI, that is, products that incorporate AI that are being sold for profit, as opposed to “practical” AI, in which AI is incorporated into in-house systems to be used internally within an organization. Commercial AI products take the form of equipment, systems, or software. My perspective is also a function of what I’ll call the current socio-techno-economic c...

The research problem being investigated in this article is how to develop governance mechanisms and collective decision-making processes at a global level for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and Autonomous systems (AS), which would enhance confidence in AI and AS.

Copyright © 2003, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved. 0738-4602-2003 / $2.00 In the span of a few months, the AI community lost four important figures. The fall of 2002 marked the passing of Ray Reiter, for whom a memorial article by Jack Minker appears in this issue. As the issue was going to press, AI lost Saul Amarel, Norm Nielsen, and Charles Rosen. This s...

Many people working in AI see the construction of an android with human-like abilities as the main goal of AI. For example, Charniak and McDermott write [4, p. 7]: The ultimate goal of AI research (which we are very far from achieving) is to build a person, or, more humbly, an animal. Those working on the MIT Cog Project are more explicit [3]: Building an android, an autonomous robot with human...

This paper discusses whether computers, using Artifical Intelligence (AI), could create art. The first part concerns AI-based tools for assisting with art making. The history of technologies that automated aspects of art is covered, including photography and animation. In each case, we see initial fears and denial of the technology, followed by a blossoming of new creative and professional oppo...