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The Return of Artificial Intelligence

It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performing human tasks such

as problem-solving and pattern-recognition

人工智能的回归

谈论计 算机执行人类才能执行的任务，

如解决问题、模式识别，再一次成为受欢迎的话题。

A After years in the wilderness, the term

‘

artificial intelligence

’

(AI) seems

poised to make a comeback. AI was big in the 1980s but vanished in the 1990s. It

re-entered

public

consciousness

with

the

release

of

AI,

a

movie

about

a

robot

boy.

This

has ignited public debate about AI, but the term is also being used once more within

the

computer

industry.

Researchers,

executives

and

marketing

people

are

now

using

the

expression without irony or inverted commas. And it is not always hype. The term is

being

applied,

with

some

justification,

to

products

that

depend

on

technology

that

was

originally

developed

by

AI

researchers.

Admittedly,

the

rehabilitation

of

the

term

has

a

long

way

to

go,

and

some

firms

still

prefer

to

avoid

using

it.

But

the

fact

that

others

are starting to use it again suggests that AI has moved on from being seen as an

over- ambitious and under-achieving field of research.

A < /p>

在失宠数年之后，

“人工智能”这个词好像在准备着东山再起。< /p>

人工智能在

20

世纪

80

年

代非常流行，但到了

20< /p>

世纪

90

年代却突然消声匿迹了。随着《 人工智能》这部关于机器男孩

的电影的上映，这个词又重新回到公众的意识之中。虽然这 部电影引发了公众对于人工智能的

辩论，但这个词还是在计算机领域再次被使用。研究人 员、行政管理人员和营销人员使用这个

词的时候不再带有嘲讽的意味，也不再加引号。关 于这个词，也不再总是天花乱坠的宣传。现

在，这个术语逐渐被合理地应用到某些产品中 ，而这些产品正是依托原来人工智能研究人员开

发的技术。诚然，这个词的复活还有待时 日，而且有些公司仍尽量避免使用它。但是其他人已

经开始再次使用这个词汇，这表明人 们渐渐地不再将人工智能看作是好高骛远、无所建数的研

究的代名词。

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B The field was launched, and the term

‘

artificial intelligence

’

coined, at a

conference

in

1956,

by

a

group

of

researchers

that

included

Marvin

Minsky,

John

McCarthy,

Herbert Simon and Alan Newell, all of whom went on to become leading figures in the

field. The expression provided an attractive but informative name for a research

programme that encompassed such previously disparate fields as operations research,

cybernetics,

logic

and

computer

science.

The

goal

they

shared

was

an

attempt

to

capture

or mimic human abilities using machines. That said, different groups of researchers

attacked different problems, from speech recognition to chess playing, in different

ways; AI unified the field in name only. But it was a term that captured the public

imagination.

B

1956

年，一组包括

Marvin

Minsky

、

John

McCarthy

、

Herbert

Simon

和

Alan

Newell

在

内的研究人员在一次 大会上创造了“人工智能”这一名词，并开创了这一研究领域。这几位研