It is widely accepted that AI has failed to realize many of those lofty early promises. artificial-intelligence research (AI) have spent much of time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for a relatively modest set of actual accomplishments. Now, The new project, launched with an initial $5 million grant and a five-year timetable, is called the Mind Machine Project, or MMP are gearing up for a massive ‘do-over’ of the whole idea. One of the project’s goals is to create intelligent machines — “whatever that means.”  MMP group members span five generations of artificial-intelligence research, some of the pioneers of the field, joined by later generations of thinkers. Read the rest of this entry »