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Need suggestions for a case study Application and / or development techniques in AI
Need suggestions for a case study Hi, As part of my computing course I am studying Artificial Intelligence, and at the moment, Ive just been given a project on it. The tasks are basically to identify an application and write about the methods used and effectiveness of the program. I have to also identify the approach and possible future developments. Ive been combing the net now for a while, but found no real interesting projects that have enough supporting documentation, do you think that you could point me in some direction. P.s. If it helps, my interests are either with the Internet / Nanotech or Robotics when talking of AI. Cheers in advance, Mike | flyingbuddha 14 posts. Monday 11 March, 12:49 Reply
Options I doubt Artificial Intelligence will apply to nanotechnology, or benefit from it in the medium term future -- if at all. So that leaves you with a robotics application, or web applications. For internet applications, I can think of two options: A) Smart Agents Interactive chatter bots that do tech support, entertainment, education. See the threads Virtual Personalities and Smart Web-Bots. There's plenty to talk about technology wise, and plenty to expand upon. B) Web-Mining Or the art of searching for data on the web; this is what search engines do. See threads on Self-Organising Web, IBM Tackles Web-Mining or Compression Enhancing Pattern Recognition. For Robots, I don't know where to start. There's no particular task that robotics focuses on, as almost anything mechanical in nature can be done with robots. Take a browse through the Robotics Arena for some ideas. Hope that helps a bit! Let us know what you end up writing about ;) | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Thursday 14 March, 06:08 Reply
How about this one? Hi, Cheers for those, I checked out the links you posted, I like the virtual hosts, and especially using AI for a tech support tool. I also feel inspired by the data mining AI, I would like to have a go at my own one of these in my summer holiday's when I got some time. I found an AI though that is a bit closer to my interests, you must of heard of AARON, the painter AI. Ive only got these links: http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/ and http://www.usask.ca/art/digital_culture/wiebe/aaron.html, have you got any more information on this product? Some general questions - how do I make titles on this message board, and how do you keep this site up-to-date? Are you funded or is it personal interest? Ive been using this site now for just under a year and its never failed to impress me. Mike | flyingbuddha 14 posts. Thursday 14 March, 08:41 Reply
Changed my mind Decided to use your example in the end, hehe. Nativeminds. Mike | flyingbuddha 14 posts. Thursday 14 March, 09:33 Reply
Could you help again? Hi there, I chose to study Nativeminds, and have managed to complete almost all of my essay on them, however, I now need to find information on future developments for the selected area. The 'area' being virtual representatives ( or Smart Agents ). Could you please desribe some of these, or point me in a direction where I could get the information? Cheers again, Mike. P.s. When I have had the assignment verified, I shall post a link to show you the research I found. | flyingbuddha 14 posts. Monday 25 March, 06:00 Reply
Combinations Building a virtual agent is a matter of combining a lot of existing technology. So your research will have to skim the surface of many fields. This includes: Natural Language Processing AI Based Animation Planning Knowledge Acquisition Although, that said, most agents at the moment are pretty basic. You may want to look into cognition and biological imitation for more ideas (like the recent news about on the learning agent). | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Tuesday 26 March, 20:43 Reply