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AIList Digest Volume 1 Issue 060
AIList Digest Tuesday, 20 Sep 1983 Volume 1 : Issue 60
Today's Topics:
AI Journals - AI Journal Changes,
Applications - Cloud Data & AI and Music,
Games - Go Tournament,
Intelligence - Turing test & Definitions
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 83 18:51 PDT
From: Bobrow.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: News about the Artificial Intelligence Journal
Changes in the Artificial Intelligence Journal
Daniel G. Bobrow (Editor-in-chief)
There have been a number of changes in the Artificial Intelligence
Journal which are of interest to the AI community.
1) The size of the journal is increasing. In 1982, the journal was
published in two volumes of three issues each (about 650 printed
pages per year). In 1983, we increased the size to two volumes of
four issues each (about 900 printed pages per year). In order to
accomodate the increasing number of high quality papers that are
being submitted to the journal, in 1984 the journal will be published
in three volumes of three issues each (about 1000 printed pages per
year).
2) Despite the journal size increase, North Holland will maintain the
current price of $50 per year for personal subscriptions for
individual (non-institutuional) members of major AI organizations
(e.g. AAAI, SIGART). To obtain such a subscription, members of such
organizations should send a copy of their membership acknowledgement,
and their check for $50 (made out to Artificial Intelligence) to:
Elsevier Science Publishers
Attn: John Tagler
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, New York 10017
North Holland (Elsevier) will acknowledge receipt of the request for
subscription, provide information about which issues will be included
in your subscription, and when they should arrive. Back issues are
not available at the personal rate.
3) The AIJ editorial board has recognized the need for good review
articles in subfields of AI. To encourage the writing of such
articles, an honorarium of $1000 will be awarded the authors of any
review accepted by the journal. Although review papers will go
through the usual review process, when accepted they will be given
priority in the publication queue. Potential authors are reminded
that review articles are among the most cited articles in any field.
4) The publication process takes time. To keep an even flow of
papers in the journal, we must maintain a queue of articles of about
six months. To allow people to know about important research results
before articles have been published, we will lists of papers accepted
for publication in earlier issues of the journal, and make such lists
available to other magazines (e.g. AAAI magazine, SIGART news).
5) New book review editor: Mark Stefik has taken the job of book
review editor for the Artificial Intelligence Journal. The following
note from Mark describes his plans to make the book review section
much more active than it has been in the past.
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The Book Review Section of the Artificial Intelligence Journal
Mark Stefik - Book Review Editor
I am delighted for this opportunity to start an active review column
for AI, and invite your suggestions and participation.
This is an especially good time to review work in artificial
intelligence. Not only is there a surge of interest in AI, but there
are also many new results and publications in computer science, in
the cognitive sciences and in other related sciences. Many new
projects are just beginning and finding new directions (e.g., machine
learning, computational linguistics), new areas of work are opening
up (e.g., new architectures), and others are reporting on long term
projects that are maturing (computer vision). Some readers will want
to track progress in specialized areas; others will find inspiration
and direction from work breaking outside the field. There is enough
new and good but unreviewed work that I would like to include two or
three book reviews in every issue of Artificial Intelligence.
I would like this column of book reviews to become essential
reading for the scientific audience of this journal. My goal is to
cover both scientific works and textbooks. Reviews of scientific
work will not only provide an abstract of the material, but also show
how it fits into the body of existing work. Reviews of textbooks
will discuss not only clarity and scope, but also how well the
textbook serves for teaching. For controversial work of major
interest I will seek more than one reviewer.
To get things started, I am seeking two things from the
community now. First, suggestions of books for review. Books
written in the past five years or so will be considered. The scope
of the fields considered will be broad. The main criteria will be
scientific interest to the readership. For example, books from as
far afield as cultural anthropology or sociobiology will be
considered if they are sufficiently relevent, and readable by an AI
audience. Occasionally, important books intended for a popular
audience will also be considered.
My second request is for reviewers. I will be asking
colleagues for reviews of particular books, but will also be open
both to volunteers and suggestions. Although I will tend to solicit
reviews from researchers of breadth and maturity, I recognize that
graduate students preparing theses are some of the best read people
in specialized areas. For them, reviews in Artificial Intelligence
will be a good way to to share the fruits of intensive reading in
thesis preparation, and also to achieve some visibility. Reviewers
will receive a personal copy of the book reviewed.
Suggestions will reach me at the following address.
Publishers should send two copies of works to be reviewed.
Mark Stefik
Knowledge Systems Area
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
ARPANET Address: STEFIK@PARC
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 83 17:09:09 PDT
From: Alex Pang <v.pang@UCLA-LOCUS>
Subject: help on satellite image processing
I'm planning to do some work on cloud formation prediction
based either purely on previous cloud formations or together with some
other information - e.g. pressure, humidity, wind, etc. Does anyone
out there know of any existing system doing any related stuff on this,
and if so, how and where I can get more information on it. Also, do
any of you know where I can get satellite data with 3D cloud
information?
Thank you very much.
alex pang
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Date: 16 Sep 83 22:26:21 EDT (Fri)
From: Randy Trigg <randy%umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Subject: AI and music
Speaking of creativity and such, I've had an interest in AI and music
for some time. What I'd like is any pointers to companies and/or
universities doing work in such areas as cognitive aspects of
appreciating and creating music, automated music analysis and
synthesis, and "smart" aids for composers and students.
Assuming a reasonable response, I'll post results to the AIList.
Thanks in advance.
Randy Trigg
...!seismo!umcp-cs!randy (Usenet)
randy.umcp-cs@udel-relay (Arpanet)
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Date: 17 Sep 83 23:51:40-PDT (Sat)
From: harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Re: Go Tournament
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.908
I'm sure we could find some time on one of our Vaxen for a Go
tournament. If you're writing it on some other machine, make sure it
is portable.
=Spencer
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Date: Fri 16 Sep 83 20:07:31-PDT
From: Richard Treitel <TREITEL@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Turing test
It was once playfully proposed to permute the actors in the classical
definition of the Turing test, and thus define an intelligent entity
as one that can tell the difference between a human and a (deceptively
programmed) computer. May have been prompted by the well-known
incident involving Eliza. The result is that, as our AI systems get
better, the standard for intelligence will increase. This definition
may even enable some latter-day Goedel to prove mathematically that
computers can never be intelligent!
- Richard :-)
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 83 19:36:53 PDT
From: harry at lbl-nmm
Subject: Psychology and Artificial Intelligence.
Members of this list might find it interesting to read an article ``In
Search of Unicorns'' by M. A. Boden (author of ``Artificial
Intelligence and Natural Man'') in The Sciences (published by the New
York Academy of Sciences). It discusses the `computational style' in
theoretical psychology. It is not a technical article.
Harry Weeks
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Date: 15 Sep 83 17:10:04-PDT (Thu)
From: ihnp4!arizona!robert @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Another Definition of Intelligence
Article-I.D.: arizona.4675
A problem that bothers me about the Turing test is having to
provoke the machine with such specific questioning. So jumping ahead
a couple of steps, I would accept a machine as an adequate
intelligence if it could listen to a conversation between other
intelligences, and be able to interject at appropriate points such
that these others would not be able to infer the mechanical aspect of
this new source. Our experiences with human intelligence would make
us very suspicous of anyone or anything that sits quietly without new,
original, or synthetic comments while being within a environment of
discussion.
And then to fully qualify, upon overhearing these discussions
over net, I'd expect it to start conjecturing on the question of
intelligence, produce its own definition, and then start sending out
any feelers to ascertain if there is anything out there qualifying
under its definition.
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Date: 16 Sep 83 23:11:08-PDT (Fri)
From: decvax!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!speaker @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Re: Another Definition of Intelligence
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2608
Finally, someone has come up with a fresh point of view in an
otherwise stale discussion!
Arizona!robert suggests that a machine could be classified as
intelligent if it can discern intelligence within its environment, as
opposed to being prodded into displaying intelligence. But how can we
tell if the machine really has a discerning mind? Does it get
involved in an interesting conversation and respond with its own
ideas? Perhaps it just sits back and says nothing, considering the
conversation too trivial to participate in.
And therein lies the problem with this idea. What if the machine
doesn't feel compelled to interact with its environment? Is this a
sign of inability, or disinterest? Possibly disinterest. A machine
mind might not be interested in its environment, but in its own
thoughts. Its own thoughts ARE its environment. Perhaps its a sign
of some mental aberration. I'm sure that sufficiently intelligent
machines will be able to develop all sorts of wonderfully neurotic
patterns of behavior.
I know. Let's build a machine with only a console for an output
device and wait for it to say, "Hey, anybody intelligent out there?"
"You got any VAXEN out there?"
- Speaker
-- Full-Name: Speaker-To-Animals
Csnet: speaker@umcp-cs
Arpa: speaker.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
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Date: 17 Sep 83 19:17:21-PDT (Sat)
From: hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!speaker @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Life, don't talk to me about life....
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2628
From: jpj@mss
Subject: Re: Another Definition of Intelligence
To: citcsv!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!speaker
I find your notion of an artificial intelligence sitting
back, taking in all that goes on around it, but not being
motivated to comment (perhaps due to boredom) an amusing
idea. Have you read "The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe?" In that story is a most entertaining ai - a
chronically depressed robot (whos name escapes me at the
moment - I don't have my copy at hand) who thinks so much
faster than all the mortals around it that it is always
bored and *feels* unappreciated. (Sounds like some of my
students!)
Ah yes, Marvin the paranoid android. "Here I am, brain the size of a
planet and all they want me to do is pick up a peice of paper."
This is really interesting. You might think that a robot with such a
huge intellect would also develop an oversized ego... but just the
reverse could be true. He thinks so fast and so well that he becomes
bored and disgusted with everything around himself... so he withdraws
and wishes his boredom and misery would end.
I doubt Adams had this in mind when he wrote the book, but it fits
together nicely anyway.
--
- Speaker
speaker@umcp-cs
speaker.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
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