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21 risk
1.•2.•- lag riskThe latest data consistently show an upside risk to inflation. — Последние данные неуклонно свидетельствуют об увеличении риска инфляции.
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22 runtime error
= run-time errorпрограммная ошибка, проявляющаяся только при исполнении программы; примеры - логические ошибки (logic error) или выход за границы массива. Подобные ошибки, несмотря на серьёзный контроль во время компиляции и предварительное тестирование, обычно выявляются только при работе в реальной программной среде, с реальными данными. Для обнаружения такого рода ошибок организуется широкое бета-тестирование продукта. Различают контролируемые (checked runtime error) и неконтролируемые (unchecked runtime error) ошибки времени исполнения.Syn:Англо-русский толковый словарь терминов и сокращений по ВТ, Интернету и программированию. > runtime error
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23 accomplishment
1. n выполнение, завершение2. n достижениеaccomplishments of scientists — открытия учёных; достижения науки
3. n обыкн. l4. n достоинства, совершенстваa man of many accomplishments — человек, обладающий многими достоинствами
Синонимический ряд:1. achievement (noun) achievement; acquirement; acquisition; exploit; feat; finish; proficiency; quality; success2. doing (noun) act; action; deed; doing; thing3. fulfillment (noun) attainment; completion; effect; effecting; execution; fulfillment; fulfilment4. success (noun) success; successfulnessАнтонимический ряд:failure; frustration -
24 Art
1. n Арт2. n искусство3. n изобразительное искусствоmartial art — «искусство боя»
4. n гуманитарные наукиstate of art — уровень развития науки на; данном этапе
5. n искусства6. n обыкн. ремёсла7. n умение, искусство, мастерство8. n обыкн. l9. n хитрость, коварство10. n колдовство, магия11. n спец. дизайн12. n полигр. собир. иллюстративный материал13. n сл. фотографии разыскиваемых преступников14. n сл. обыкн. фотографии красоток, обнажённых, или знаменитостейart is long, life is short — жизнь коротка, искусство вечно
15. a художественный16. a относящийся к искусству,art brut — «сырое искусство»; непрофессиональное искусство
17. a театр. кино некоммерческий; экспериментальный18. a профессиональный; классическийword of art — профессиональный термин; специальный термин; юридический термин
Синонимический ряд:1. aptitude (noun) ability; adroitness; aptitude; artistry; dexterity; expertise; finesse; genius; imagination; inventiveness; knack; know-how; mastery; talent; virtuosity2. artfulness (noun) artfulness; artifice; cageyness; canniness; craftiness; cunning; deceit; deception; dishonesty; duplicity; foxiness; guile; slyness; wiliness3. the arts (noun) humanities; liberal arts; the arts4. trade (noun) calling; craft; handicraft; metier; profession; skill; technique; trade; vocation5. work of art (noun) description; illustration; imitation; modeling; painting; portrayal; representation; shaping; work of artАнтонимический ряд:incompetence; ineptitude; science -
25 handling
1. n обхождение, обращение2. n обращение; способ эксплуатации; обслуживание; манипулирование3. n спорт. владение мячом4. n спорт. игра руками; передача мяча5. n спорт. трактовка; разбор, обсуждение6. n спорт. подходnegotiations needing nice handling — переговоры, требующие осторожного и тонкого подхода
7. n спорт. уход8. n спорт. управление; регулирование9. n спорт. обработка10. n спорт. переработка грузов11. n спорт. маневрирование; перемещениеСинонимический ряд:1. manner of treatment (noun) administration; dealing with; managing; manner of treatment; method; styling; way2. oversight (noun) care; charge; conduct; intendance; oversight; running; superintendence; superintendency; supervision3. treatment (noun) approach; execution; management; manipulation; strategy; treatment4. dispensing (verb) dispensing; maneuvering; manipulating; plying; swinging; wielding5. governing (verb) controlling; directing; dominating; governing; managing6. marketing (verb) deal in; marketing; merchandising; peddling; retailing; selling; trade in; vending7. touching (verb) feeling; fingering; palpating; pawing; touching8. treating (verb) deal with; dealing with; playing; serving; taking; treating9. using (verb) applying; bestowing; employing; exercising; exploiting; operating; running; using; utilizing; working -
26 operation
1. n действие, работа; функционированиеto be in operation — быть в эксплуатации; действовать, функционировать, работать
to be no longer in operation — больше не эксплуатироваться, быть снятым с эксплуатации
to bring into operation — вводить в строй ; пускать в эксплуатацию
2. n процессread operation — процесс чтения, чтение; считывание
3. n действие, воздействие4. n торговая или финансовая операция; сделка5. n мед. хирургическая операцияstring operation — операция над строками; строковая операция
single operation — единичная операция; полудуплексная работа
matrix operation — матричная операция; операция над матрицей
6. n обыкн. l7. n работы, операцииlogical operation — логическое действие; логическая операция
8. n воен. операция, боевые действия, бой; сражениеoperations map — карта обстановки, оперативная схема
9. n разработка, эксплуатация10. n тех. операция, цикл обработки11. n мат. действие, операцияСинонимический ряд:1. administration (noun) administration; control; controlling; guidance; maintenance; order; ordering; superintendence; supervision2. affair (noun) affair; agency; business; course; maneuver; manoeuvre; transaction3. effect (noun) action; effect; efficacy; force; influence; virtue4. procedure (noun) act; deed; doing; execution; handling; manipulation; procedure5. promoting (noun) advancement; compelling; enforcement; enforcing; promoting6. surgery (noun) acupuncture; biopsy; dismemberment; dissection; excision; removal; section; surgery; vivisection7. use (noun) appliance; application; employment; exercise; exercising; exertion; implementation; play; usage; usance; use; utilisation8. working (noun) behaviour; functioning; performance; reaction; workingАнтонимический ряд:failure; ineffectiveness; inutility; rest; uselessness -
27 costs
accounting costs затраты на ведение бухгалтерского учета acquisition costs расходы на привлечение новых страхователей actual costs фактические издержки adjustment costs издержки регулирования administration costs административные расходы administrative costs административные расходы advertising costs затраты на рекламу allocate costs распределять затраты assign costs распределять затраты at factor costs при факторных издержках auditing costs затраты на проведение ревизии average costs средние издержки average fixed costs средние постоянные издержки average production costs средние издержки производства average total costs средние валовые затраты average variable costs средние переменные затраты average variable costs средние переменные издержки avoidable costs устранимые издержки award costs присуждать судебные издержки betterment costs затраты на повышение ценности собственности bookkeeping costs затраты на ведение бухгалтерского учета borrowing costs проценты по займам borrowing costs расходы по займам brokerage costs затраты на куртаж budget costs бюджетные затраты budgeted current standard costs сметные текущие нормативные издержки budgeted target costs плановые сметные издержки building costs затраты на строительство building maintenance costs затраты на материально-техническое обеспечение строительства business costs эксплуатационные расходы calculate costs вычислять издержки calculated costs вычисленные издержки capacity costs издержки производства при полном использовании производственных возможностей carriage costs транспортные расходы cash plant costs производственные затраты наличными charge with costs взыскивать издержки clearance costs затраты на урегулирование претензий closing costs затраты на аннулирование контракта collection costs затраты на инкассирование construction and operating costs затраты на строительство и эксплуатацию construction costs затраты на строительство conversion costs затраты, связанные с переходом на выпуск новой продукции costs издержки costs расходы costs судебные издержки costs судебные расходы costs in criminal case издержки ведения уголовного дела costs in full полные издержки costs of bankruptcy издержки банкротства costs of completion затраты на выполнение работы costs of discharge затраты на разгрузку costs of forward cover бирж. затраты на срочное покрытие costs of litigation издержки гражданского судебного спора costs of management административные расходы costs of queue вчт. потери вследствие ожидания в очереди costs of recourse юр. затраты на регресс costs of research and development затраты на научно-исследовательские и опытно-конструкторские работы current costs текущие издержки decision as to costs определение суда в отношении издержек deduct costs удерживать затраты defray costs нести расходы defray costs покрывать издержки degressive costs пропорционально уменьшающиеся затраты degressive costs пропорционально уменьшающиеся расходы demolition costs затраты на снос здания development costs затраты на освоение development costs затраты на строительство differential costs дополнительные издержки differential costs приростные издержки differential costs удельные переменные издержки direct costs непосредственные расходы direct costs переменные затраты direct costs переменные издержки direct costs прямые затраты direct costs прямые издержки discounting costs издержки дисконтирования distribute costs распределять затраты distribution costs издержки обращения distribution costs издержки сбыта продукции distribution costs издержки торговых предприятий divorce costs судебные издержки развода drainage costs расходы на осушение election costs затраты на проведение выборов employment costs затраты на содержание персонала entertainment costs представительские расходы establishment costs учредительские расходы excess costs чрезмерные расходы execution costs расходы на исполнение extension costs затраты на расширение предприятия external costs внешние расходы extra costs дополнительные расходы extraordinary costs чрезвычайные расходы factory overhead costs накладные расходы предприятия financing costs затраты на финансирование fire extinguishing costs затраты на тушение пожара fixed costs постоянные затраты fixed costs постоянные издержки flotation costs стоимость выпуска новых акций flotation costs стоимость выпуска новых облигаций formation costs затраты на учреждение forward cover costs бирж. затраты на срочное покрытие forward cover costs бирж. затраты на форвардное покрытие freight costs стоимость фрахта funeral costs расходы на похороны general costs общие затраты general costs общие издержки gross costs валовые издержки handling costs стоимость погрузочно-разгрузочных работ hauling costs транс. транспортные расходы hourly wage costs эк.произ. затраты на почасовую заработную плату implicit costs вмененные издержки incidental costs побочные затраты incidental costs случайные расходы included costs учтенные расходы income-related costs затраты, связанные с доходом increased costs возросшие издержки incremental costs дополнительные издержки incremental costs приростные издержки indirect costs косвенные издержки indirect operating costs косвенные эксплуатационные издержки initial costs начальные расходы initial costs первоначальные издержки inspection costs затраты на приемочный контроль installation costs затраты на монтаж insurance costs страховые издержки interest costs затраты на выплату процентов internal costs внутрифирменние издержки internal failure costs внутренние издержки вследствие отказа issue costs затраты на эмиссию issuing costs затраты на выпуск ценных бумаг joint costs затраты на транспортировку в оба конца joint costs издержки комплексного производства joint costs издержки совместного производства joint costs общезаводские издержки при многономенклатурном производстве labour costs затраты на оплату труда labour costs расходы на рабочую силу labour costs стоимость рабочей силы law costs расходы на судебный процесс law costs судебные издержки legal costs судебные издержки licence costs затраты на лицензию liquidation costs стоимость ликвидации litigation costs судебные издержки maintenance costs стоимость технического обслуживания manpower costs стоимость рабочей силы manufacturing costs общезаводские накладные расходы manufacturing costs стоимость производства marginal costs маржинальные издержки marginal costs предельные издержки marginal costs приростные издержки marketing costs издержки обращения marketing costs издержки сбыта marketing costs маркетинговые затраты meet costs покрывать расходы minimum costs минимальные затраты mixed costs комбинированные затраты mortgaging costs ипотечные издержки new business costs затраты на новую фирму nonrecurring costs разовые затраты once-and-for-all costs разовые затраты operating costs текущие расходы, эксплуатационные расходы operating costs эксплуатационные затраты operating costs вчт. эксплуатационные расходы operating: costs текущий; operating costs текущие расходы; эксплуатационные расходы operational costs эксплуатационные затраты operational: costs относящийся к действию, работе; operational costs расходы по эксплуатации (оборудования и т. п.) organization costs административные расходы original costs первоначальные издержки other indirect costs прочие косвенные расходы packaging costs затраты на упаковку packaging costs расходы по упаковке packing costs расходы на упаковку packing costs стоимость упаковки pay costs оплачивать издержки pension costs затраты на пенсионное обеспечение period costs затраты за отчетный период period costs издержки за отчетный период plaintiff's costs издержки истца port costs портовые расходы preliminary costs предварительные затраты prepaid costs предварительно оплаченные расходы prime costs основные расходы processing costs вчт. затраты на обработку production costs издержки производства progressive costs затраты, способствующие росту эффективности производственных факторов progressive fixed costs постоянные затраты, способствующие росту эффективности производственных факторов promotional costs затраты на продвижение товара на рынок promotional costs затраты на рекламно-пропагандистскую деятельность property development costs стоимость строительных работ publicity costs расходы на рекламу rebuilding costs затраты на реконструкцию recovery costs затраты на инкасацию reduce costs сокращать затраты relocation costs затраты на переезд removal costs издержки ликвидации объекта основного капитала rent costs затраты на арендную плату rent costs затраты на квартирную плату reorganization costs затраты на реорганизацию repair costs затраты на ремонт repatriation costs затраты на репатриацию research costs затраты на научные исследования reserve costs ограничивать расходы running costs эксплуатационные расходы running-in costs затраты на приработку sales promotion costs затраты на стимулирование сбыта scheduled costs нормативные издержки scheduled costs стоимостные нормы selling costs торговые издержки semivariable costs полупеременные издержки share costs распределять затраты shipping costs затраты на транспортировку site costs затраты на подготовку строительной площадки site costs затраты на подготовку строительства site costs затраты на подготовку участка к застройке social costs общественные затраты social security costs затраты на социальное обеспечение sorting costs затраты на сортировку special costs специальные затраты specified costs издержки производства конкретных изделий staff costs затраты на содержание персонала stamp costs затраты на пломбирование stamp costs затраты на штемпелевание start-up costs затраты на ввод в действие start-up costs затраты на запуск в производство start-up costs издержки освоения нового предприятия start-up costs издержки подготовки производства starting costs затраты, связанные с пуском производства starting costs издержки, связанные с пуском производства stevedoring costs стоимость погрузки или разгрузки корабля storage costs плата за хранение storage costs складские расходы stowage costs стоимость укладки или хранения на складе supplementary costs дополнительные затраты tax the costs таксировать судебные издержки total costs общие издержки total production costs суммарные издержки производства transaction costs операционные издержки transport costs транспортные расходы transportation costs транспортные расходы undue costs непросроченные издержки unforeseen costs непредвиденные затраты wage costs затраты на заработную плату with costs вместе с судебными издержками working costs эксплуатационные затраты works overhead costs накладные расходы предприятия -
28 Artificial Intelligence
In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, EventuallyJust as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the ProgramMany problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)[AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract FormThe basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory FormationIt is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular ContextsEven if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial IntelligenceThe primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary PropositionsIn artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
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