The Return of Artificial Intelligence
Quote: "Artificial intelligence (AI) has come in and out of vogue more times than Madonna in the past 20 years: it has been hyped and then, having failed to live up to the hype, been discredited until being revived again. In the late 1990s, an observer at a World Wide Web technology conference reported that most of the proposals there had been floated, several years earlier, under the AI moniker and were now being recycled-good technology solutions looking for real business problems to solve...Nonetheless, the AI-development community has generated techniques that are beginning to show promise for real business applications."
Comment: Business focused article. AI may have huge implications for education (just saw a new tutorial on Groove that uses an interactive agent called a "bot" (or Autonomous Execution Agent). Like streaming video - this can help to expand the horizon of effective learning online...drawback - expense, expertise and adoption (socially - instructors/students may find AI intimidating).