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Old Feb 6th, 2007, 10:46 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Infinite Recursion View Post
In case I was not clear, I was not comparing AI with stealth technology, merely pointing out the potential secrecy of projects involved in such areas prior to being released to the public's knowledge (unclassified).
Ok appologies.

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Originally Posted by DaWei View Post
One example is in OCR (and other pattern-recognition tasks). The ability of your $100 printer (and its software) exceeds greatly the abilities we were able to offer the USPS in the mid-80s, even with million-dollar machines.

Another area is gaming. Backgammon AI, for instance, using neural networks, plays at world-class level. I'm sure you're more aware of those kinds of abilities in chess, as it gets more exposure.
I'm sure you know how stated things work, but...

OCR basically works by comparing the character with hundreads of variations of each character until a match is found - or not found as is often the case.

Board games there are a finite amount of moves therefore everyone can be tried until one which 'works' is found.

Neural networks only tune a predefined operation, they do not facilitate the learning of new operations.

But of course depending on how you define intelligence these things can be classed as examples of limited intelligence.
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