http://www.artintell.com Artificial Intelligence Webzine Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:36:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Exploring written works for signs of Arti (Artificial Intelligence) can be a complex activity. It's hard to determine just exactly when the concept of artificial intelligence first appeared in speculative stories. Robot-like intelligences can go back as far as the epic tale of "Gilgamesh". Some have interpreted the story in ... http://www.artintell.com/?p=5 Charles Babbage (1792-1871) is a good place to start in our quest for the fabled Arti. Babbage was an English astronomy student who embarked on a career as a computer engineer when hardly anyone had even thought of the computer concept and engineer referred to someone who ran a steam ... http://www.artintell.com/?p=4 Does this image bother you in any way? Probably not. Maybe it should. Of course it's just a cartoon version of the robot from "Lost In Space" and any claim to real intelligence died when the writers and the TV series was cancelled. On the other hand, this robot is ... http://www.artintell.com/?p=3 Do you really know for sure whether that 'person' in the IRC chat room, or those return e-mail addresses on all that 'junk' in your inbox are 'real' people. It should be no secret that some of them aren't. Bots (i.e. robotic-like software) have been a tradition on the Internet ... http://www.artintell.com/?p=1