[Ultima]

Errrm aside from the God flame war... i agree with Tweener nearly all of Artificial Intelligence is to do with searching things... obviously as intelligently and efficiently as you can. There's a bit more to it but not much . In addition Google is fairly intelligent, it looks at the context of the words you have given it to try and judge a meaning to your search e.g. Roses House and House Roses one might be a search for a building and the other a type of flower.... obviously Google isn’t that good but its a bit more than just a hash to look up the words across the whole of the net that would take to much time, so its more efficient to guess at what the user is trying to search for first. Check out those examples they bring up different results. In Google obviously that’s also because its treating both words as a whole too, but try typing in a whole sentence; then change the grammar.

wOw the world spins?

[qpan]

Yes, granted that google is more complex than just a hashing algorithm. But all the donkey work is done by hashing algorithms - you of all people should know that hashing is the best search algorithm for large databases!

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
-Edgar Allan Poe

[tweener]

Artifical Intelligence is not necessarily  based on searching, but it is based on many simple actions working together to make some "emergent behavior".  Basically, the behavior of the system is much more complex than any one piece of the system can account for.  The very best example is the human brain.  No single neuron is capable of much, but putting several billion of them together in certain ways (complete randomness won't work) makes for the most complex system in the known universe.

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John - The Eternal Pessimist.

[neilep]

I know this link has nothing to do with your discussions, but if you have broadband, or are prepared to wait for it to download via a dial up connection, this is a dirct link to a 6mb( over 3 minutes) clip of some incredible dancing  Sony robots...enjoy  http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1218/sony_06.wmv

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[Quantumcat]

Senseless - we are not trying to force our beliefs on you, and it's quite rude to try to force your beliefs on us. It shows you disrespect another person and consider the conclusions they've drawn as unworthy, and that the way you think is better than someone else's. You can't do that until you've actually been in someone else's mind. If you want to believe in God, go ahead, we're not going to try to convince you otherwise. All the others have done is try to tell you their own opinions and to defend themselves from your attacks, and haven't forced you to agree to what they believe - the opposite of which is what you're doing to us.

Am I dead? Am I alive? I'm both!

[Bin Laden]

If you would all just embrace my muslim faith then there would be no problems and i wouldn't be forced to pick one of you for my religious jihad upon reaching 100 posts. In my opinion you are ALL foolish Bush loving INFIDELS!

catch me if you can!

[Exodus]

quote:Originally posted by Bin Laden

In my opinion you are ALL foolish Bush loving INFIDELS!

catch me if you can!

Quite agree Bin, dunno about everyone else but i'm quite partial to a bit of bush me... []