Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

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The credits given below do not imply that the definitions are original to those people, simply that that is the person who sent me the e-mail with the definitition in it. The credits are given mainly to deflect flames away from myself. I certainly don't want take the blame for Ari's submission. -- Frank


Artificial Intelligence - the art of writing computer programs with function and variable names carefully chosen so one can use sentences like "The computer learned the concept of roundness." See also Applied Anthropomorphism.

Allen L. Barker


Artificial Intelligence - a subfield of computer science devoted to the construction of extremely complex programs that do not work.

Frank Z. Brill


AI: An attempt to make computers as incompotent as people... THE TRUE study of making computers think like people is "AS" Artificial Stupidity... If we acheive this we'll really have human-like machines...

Charles C. Bundy


Artificial Intelligence - an area of computer science that follows the credo, "When in doubt, use a graph search!!"

Jared L. Colflesh


Artificial Intelligence:
void Duh( void )
{
  while (thinking)
    Duh();
}

Robert C. Craighurst


Artificial Intelligence - An attempt to write programs to duplicate with a machine the natural unintelligence of the programmer.

Gabriel J. Ferrer


AI is, by definition, things we can't do. Once we solve a problem, it is no longer AI. Once upon a time, the concept of a compiler was considered an AI project; once it was actually done, not so.

Corollary: there are no solvable AI problems.

Joseph L. Ganley


AI is the field of study of the Artificial Intelligentsia.

Darrell M. Kienzle


One of my favorite CS jokes:

What do you call it when a blonde computer scientist dyes her hair brown?

Artificial Intelligence.

Ari Rapkin (ari@clairol.com)


A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Artificial Intelligence?
I'll be impressed when they come up with artificial CUNNING.

Robots do it with artificial intelligence.

sent by Adam Rifkin(adam@cs.caltech.edu)


Mike DeLong sent a Uses for AI discussion he saw on Usenet somewhere.
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