Hi all, To borrow from The Bard, what’s in a name? The world is awash with the hype, the reality, the potential, and the concerns of Artificial Intelligence. But what constitutes AI? That depends on who, and when, you ask. When I was a kid (academically speaking), tasked with teaching a course on AI, I “knew” what it was: systems with propositions consisting of discrete symbols, manipulated through first order predicate calculus, sometimes with a helping of probability on the side. There were languages and hardware developed to assist in that enterprise. So, when the IEEE Neural Networks Council/Society changed its name to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, it made perfect sense to me that CI was different from AI since the underlying models were rooted in numeric and functional representations, producing a nice crisp partition of techniques.

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人工智能的任何其他名称[总统致辞]


大家好，借用《吟游诗人》的话，名字有什么含义？世界充斥着人工智能的炒作、现实、潜力和担忧。但什么是人工智能呢？这取决于您询问的对象和时间。当我还是个孩子的时候（从学术上来说），负责教授人工智能课程时，我“知道”它是什么：命题由离散符号组成的系统，通过一阶谓词演算进行操作，有时还需要概率的帮助。开发了一些语言和硬件来协助该企业。因此，当 IEEE 神经网络理事会/学会更名为 IEEE 计算智能学会时，我完全明白 CI 与 AI 不同，因为底层模型植根于数字和函数表示，从而产生了清晰的划分技术。