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- I gotta side with anigbrowl - the Wikipedia page[1] on the Fifth Generation Project is a much better read than this article. I'd encourage anyone interested in this topic to give it a look. For even more detail, consult the Feigenbaum & McCorduck book[2] mentioned by AlbertCory. It's a very interesting story.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...
- Unleashing the Killer App by Chunka Mui and Larry Downes
Wellsprings of Knowledge by Dorothy Leonard-Barton
Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race by Michael J. English
If Only We Knew What We Know by C. Jackson Grayson and Carla O'Dell
Artificial Life by Steve Levy
The Man Who Tamed Lightning: Charles Proteus Steinmetz by Floyd Miller
The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World by Edward Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck
- I've been intrigued lately by the notion of Japan's "Fifth Generation", and wonder what was the nature of the research being done, its actual results, etc. I'm also wondering if there are possible links that we could try to establish with the current AI boom. One interesting book I found about the subject is this one:
https://www.amazon.ca/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intelligen...
But as it's from 1983 (i.e. right in the actual period), I don't think the historical perspective would be very present. Anyone has other interesting reading suggestions?
- It's somewhat appalling that they don't mention that there's a book with this title:
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...
As for "The important thing is that they tried" : would you give them credit for "trying" to invent real-time, neuron-by-neuron brain imaging, in 1982? And giving billions of taxpayer Yen to the effort? How about quantum computers?
Or would you have been justified in saying that there are projects with a better prospect of success right now, and we shouldn't waste the taxpayers' money on things guaranteed to fail?
So what ARE your limits? Or are there any?
- Oh, you want to hold up Japan, huh? Like from 1990 on? Or this, from the early 80's?
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Edward-Feigenbaum/dp...
Or how about the US?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/07/25/192832/lessons-f...
