Interesting Links

Robotic Vacuum cleaner from Matsushita ($4,000)

Ray Kurzweil's somewhat self serving site . He wrote "The age of intelligent machines" and more recently "The age of spiritual machines". Fascinating reading.

Yahoo's AI links

Chess

• Deep blue wins 3.5 - 2.5

Eliza like programs

• Eliza on the Web
• Dr Webowitz, a funny Eliza

Tic tac toe

• Tic tac toe (java)
• Yahoo's Tic Tac Toe Index
• Information on Deep Blue, the machine that beat Kasparov a couple of times.

Cyc and Large Knowledge Bases

• The Cyc - agent project: CYC - KQML. There is an interesting article on a visit to the Cyc Office. You can try to infer Cyc's probability of success or failure from this article and your own bias.
• The Cyc home page. I couldn't connect when I tried to check it out. You may be luckier.
• Doug Lenat's view of AI, Machine Learning and his approach to problem solving. Cyc is Doug Lenat's project.
• The Yahoo index for Expert Systems

State of the art research

• ECSL (pronounced "XL")
• ILLiGAL
• MIT AI lab
• MIT Media lab
• CMU AI repository.
• Stanford's Knowledge Systems lab

Robotics

• Rodney Brooks at MIT does very original work.
• CMU Robotics Institute

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