From: crwfrd@umich.edu   
      
   On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:00:59 +0000, sirhcv wrote:   
   >   
   > I'm writing an article on AI for the Brown University paper's science   
   > section and I'd apprecaite your input.  What are comp.ai's five most   
   > interesting questions/problems in the area of Artificial Intelligence   
   > and please give some indication of why.  Thank you all :-)   
      
   Not to be a troll, but IMHO easily the most interesting question in AI is...   
      
   - Why hasn't the field made more progress in 50 years toward the holy   
   grail of AI -- creating a sentient being?   
      
   Perhaps the next best questions are:   
      
   - Where are we now in that search for the grail, and   
      
   - How do we get the rest of the way to the grail?   
      
   A book from 1997 that sought to address these was David Stork's "HAL's   
   Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality".  However, the contributors   
   focused more on where we've been and where we are, and less on where we'll   
   be in the foreseeable future or how we'll get there.   
      
       Randy   
      
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