Hi, I know it's not a trivial field but I had some readings about artificial intelligence lately and my personal conclusion is that it's mostly just statistics.
Naively explained: continiously gather and store information and apply a default rating 1) answer "questions" with gathered information according to rating 2) store/calculate rating based upon input (be it an interface or user input) 3) goto 1 (sorry for the goto) So I think that in general there hasn't yet been any artificial intelligence programmed (Note: I believe I'm aware of the difference between artificial intelligence and artificial conscusiness where the second would be able to answer things like: "How are you today" and the first can answer factual knowledge) Am I thinking right here or is there some (preferrably) web reading available on that or in depth links about the topic? thanks and sorry for OT posting martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list