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zandorg on Sept 7, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Singularity is Far

I studied AI at University, and it was mostly about search.

I learned Prolog, which was a real eye-opener about functions that can find paths backwards, a kind of reverse search.

I also learned about Bayes, and have come up with an algorithm (myself) which is similiar to Bayes, but it's top secret at the moment.

sown on Sept 7, 2008 [–]

There is a bit of a renaissance going on within some arcane fields of AI. There is work underway to try to create a real thinking machine, with the idea that we have come a long way in our understanding about neuroscience, etc.

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