From AI Technology Research to Applications.
Armin Bernd Cremers, Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard · 1994
Focusing on examples of knowledge systems and machine learning, this paper illustrates the transfer of AI technology from science to real-world applications. Decades of AI research precede a rather short but significant period, in which companies report the useful exploitation of AI technology. This paper illustrates the role played by science, and it argues that AI is just beginning to produce an ever increasingly variety of real world applications. Keyword Codes: I.2.0; I.2.1; I.2.6 Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, General; Applications and Expert Systems; Learning 1. Introduction Over the last 30 years, research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has produced a rich variety of techniques for the acquisition, representation and processing of knowledge. In the early years, research on AI was centered around human intelligence, in particular reasoning and cognition. Today, AI has become a rather broad field, ranging from expert systems and theorem provers to evolutionary algorithms, f...