An important point to remember about Artificial Intelligence technology: Stanford's Stanley robot, that won the DARPA Grand Challenge by driving across a desert course, was based on a conceptual revolution that started 20 years ago in 1987. The Bayesian revolution. It wasn't based on a big new idea, it was based on a big two-decades-old idea, the Bayesian revolution, which it took that long to finally get right.
The latest cool robots an' stuff that the media wants to report on, are generally based on AI ideas decades old; and the newest most brilliant ideas of AI today, may not yield impressive technology for years to come.
If PARC developed Powerset's ideas 30 years ago, that might just be par for the course.
The latest cool robots an' stuff that the media wants to report on, are generally based on AI ideas decades old; and the newest most brilliant ideas of AI today, may not yield impressive technology for years to come.
If PARC developed Powerset's ideas 30 years ago, that might just be par for the course.