General Resources
Turing's seminal article Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Mind 236:433-460, 1950)
Some recent AI systems:
- TOPIO: a
table tennis robot
- a violin-playing robot
- A
robot car driver (Otago CS graduate Dave
Ferguson was lead programmer for planning!)
- Google's unmanned vehicle (start at 2:00)
- Deep Blue
beating Gary Kasparov in 1997
- An
AI program which proved a mathematical theorem
- Google Translate
- In Zia Mahmood's book, Bridge, My Way (1992), Zia
offered a $1M bet that no 4-person team of his choosing would
be beaten by a computer. A few years later the bridge
program GIB,
brainchild of American computer scientist Matthew Ginsberg,
proved capable of expert declarer plays like winkle squeezes
in play tests. In 1996, Zia withdrew his bet. Two years
later, GIB became the world champion in computer bridge, and
also defeated the vast majority of the world's top bridge
players from the 1998 Par Contest (including Zia
Mahmood). However, such a par contest measures technical
bridge analysis skills only, and in 1999 Zia beat various
computer programs, including GIB.
Some Turing-test candidates:
Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig's online AI course. (You can only access it as a 'visitor' now, but there are still some interesting videos.)
Peter Norvig answers some questions about AI and his work at Google