I really enjoyed reading Peter Norvig’s short piece in the New York Post (the Post? yes, the Post!) about the age of machines. Artificial intelligence (more than games) was what first got me excited about computers and I still have a bunch of the early AI books (Patrick Winston anyone?) on my shelf. We are now actually getting AI although people seem loath to call it that because of the history of over-promise. Yet, computers are clearly doing exactly the kind of things that we had hoped deca...

I really enjoyed reading Peter Norvig’s short piece in the New York Post (the Post? yes, the Post!) about the age of machines. Artificial intelligence (more than games) was what first got me excited about computers and I still have a bunch of the early AI books (Patrick Winston anyone?) on my shelf. We are now actually getting AI although people seem loath to call it that because of the history of over-promise. Yet, computers are clearly doing exactly the kind of things that we had hoped deca...