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Quite a bit, actually. In 'Computing machinery and intelligence.', Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science, made the claim that by the year 2000, computers would be able to pass the Turing test at a reasonably sophisticated level, in particular, that the average interrogator would not be able to identify the computer correctly more than 70 per cent of the time after a five minute conversation. AI hasn't quite lived upto Turing's claims, but quite a bit of progress has been made, including: - Deployed speech dialog systems by firms like IBM, Dragon and Lernout&Hauspie - Financial software, which is used by banks to scan credit card transactions for unusual patterns that might signal fraud. One piece of software is estimated to save banks $500 million annually. - Applications of expert systems/case-based reasoning: a computerized Leukemia diagnosis system did a better job checking for blood disorders than human experts. - Machine translation for Environment Canada: software developed in the 1970s translated natural language weather forcasts between English and French. Purportedly stil in use. - Deep Blue, the first computer to beat the human chess Grandmaster - Physical design analysis programs,such as for buildings and highways. - Fuzzy controllers in dishwashers, etc. Here is a cute A-Z list made by llv@linuxmail.org (Lauren Vincent): AnswerBus (http://www.answerbus.com/) Babel Fish (http://babel.altavista.com/) Connexor (http://www.connexor.com/) Deep Blue (http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/) Emdros (http://emdros.org/) Flip Dog (http://flipdog.monster.com/) Gigablast (http://www.gigablast.com/) Hermit Crab (http://www.sil.org/computing/hermitcrab/) InDiGen (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/cl/projects/indigen.html) Jack the Ripper (http://www.triumphpc.com/jack-the-ripper/) KartOO (http://www.kartoo.com/) Loebner Prize (http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html) Mamma (http://www.mamma.com/) NEGRA (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/2002-2004/projects.phtml?action=2&w=2&l=en) OpenFind (http://www.openfind.com/en.web.php) PolyWorld (http://homepage.mac.com/larryy/larryy/PolyWorld.html) Questia (http://www.questia.com/) RiniNet (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rininnlib/) SIGS (http://www.acm.org/sigs/) Turing Test (http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html) Useroo (http://useroo.businessresearchsources.com/) Vivisimo (http://www.vivisimo.com/) WordNet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/) Xconq (http://sources.redhat.com/xconq/) YY (http://www.yy.com/) Zabaware (http://www.zabaware.com/) One persistent 'problem' is that as soon as an AI technique trully succeeds, in the minds of many it ceases to be AI, becoming something like Engineering. For example, when Deep Blue defeated Kasparov, there were many who said Deep Blue wasn't AI, since after all it was just a brute force parallel minimax search, despite minimax search being one of the great early successes of AI. Nowadays, people are still studying all sorts of things that are currently considered the prerequisites of intelligence, such as intuition and emotion, but you can bet that if and when they solve some part, some will say "oh, that's just Engineering..." ref: Alan M. Turing. Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, LIX(236):433-460, October 1950. (http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm) Sheiber, S, "Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test". Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, volume 37, number 6, pages 70-78, 1994
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