Just
released isicad.ru No.104 of March, 2013 has a cover page presenting Mr.G.Depardieu and Mr. B.Charles who both seem to have some troubles with
a recent tax policy in France. The headline below says: “Asterix and Obelix are
Against”.
As for Mr. Charles, it is about his recent interview to Le Monde also
retold and commented at isicad.ru.
My
editorial of March is entitled "CAD and Artificial Intelligence".
After giving
a link to a regular isicad monthly overview "Global CAD will Grow ThroughRussia", I present a COFES update: nine persons from Russia go to Arizona;
33 participants from of outside of Russia have by today registered for COFES Russia 2013 scheduled for the end of May.
The main
topic related to AI was inspired by a speculative paper "Industrial
Artificial Intelligence Has Been Built in Russia" recently submitted to
isicad.ru and rejected by our editorial board. Based on my long experience of working
in internationally recognized Soviet and Russian AI research institutions, I explained
the difference between interpretation of "computer intelligence" by
common people and comparatively modest achievements in expert systems, automatic
understanding of natural language, speech and image recognition and so on. By
the way, note that in Russian language "intelligence" is something
far beyond logical inference, reasoning and such things, it is something which
is expected to be able to feel, to have intuition - i.e. in Russia, the words
"artificial intelligence" are commonly understood strongly anthropomorphic...
I can
hardly translate my almost belletristic Russian text... Well, one remark I made is that as science and technology will probably be developing
more and more intelligent systems, we cannot exclude that average level of the
mankind intelligence will continue to be falling down; and in the long run, the
Turing test may become meaningless...
