Artificial Intelligence ( Cybernetics, Machine Learning, Machine Intelligence, and AI) Definition

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Artificial Intelligence

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ALSO CALLED: Cybernetics, Machine Learning, Machine Intelligence, and AI
DEFINITION: An artificial intellect (or "artilect"), according to Dr. Hugo de Garis, is a computer intelligence superior to that of humans in one or more spheres of knowledge together with an implicit will to use the intelligence. Artilects are the concern of artificial intelligence specialists (or "intelligists") like de Garis, who speculates that human society may soon have to face the question of whether and …
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Recent Vendor Reports on Artificial Intelligence
Next Generation Solutions for Spam: A Predictive Approach sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 01 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 SUMMARY: Without the ability to automatically adapt to detect new types of threats, an anti-spam solution will always be a step behind the spammers. TOPICS: Anti-Spam Software \| Artificial Intelligence \| Email Security \| Phishing \| Secure Content Management Appliances \| Spam \| Virus Protection

DataDetective sponsored by Sentient Information Systems PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 26 Jul 2004 \| Published: 26 Jul 2004 SUMMARY:DataDetective, Sentient's product line for matching and mining, enables organizations to benefit from the enormous value of their data. TOPICS: Artificial Intelligence \| Data Mining Software

Email Security: Anti-Spam sponsored by IntelliSpace PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 25 Feb 2004 \| Published: 01 Jan 2003 SUMMARY: Anti-Spam Service, powered by MessageLabs, uses multiple spam filtering techniques including a combination of heuristics, artificial intelligence, and blacklists/whitelists. TOPICS: Artificial Intelligence \| Email Security \| Email Security Services \| Spam

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): … how we can restrain artificial intelligence from making decisions inimical to humans.

Dr. de Garis assumes that within one or two generations, we will have computers that are more sophisticated than human brains with the ability to experimentally evolve their intelligence into something much beyond what humans might contemplate or understand. de Garis wonders whether such machines would consider human beings important enough to preserve. He speculates that society will soon need to face the question of whether we should permit artilects to be built. He foresees two factions arising: the …
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