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Article: AI by another name. (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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AI by Another Name, The Economist (March 14, 2002), www.economist.com. "Like big hairdos and dubious pop stars, the term `artificial intelligence' (AI) was big in the 1980s, vanished in the 1990s--and now seems to be attempting a comeback. The term re-entered public consciousness most dramatically with the release last year of A.I., a movie about a robot boy. But the term is also being rehabilitated within the computer industry. Researchers, executives and marketing people are using the expression without irony or inverted commas.... Perhaps the biggest change in AI's fortunes is simply down to the change of date. The film A.I. was based on an idea by the late director, ...