 ai in mainstream enterprise applications ai in mainstream enterprise applications hemraj fri 10172025 352 ai in mainstream enterprise applications doug picirillo sort by latest trending doug pricillo latest trending government image this article is one of a series on the subject of artificial intelligence in mainstream enterprise computing in 1996 and 1997 reigning world chess champion garry kasparov played two sixgame matches against an ibm computer called deep blue kasparov won the first match deep blue was victorious in the second match marking the first time that a computer had defeated a reigning world champion today any of us could buy an inexpensive chess program for our laptop computer which would consistently outplay deep blue in 1997 however deep blue s victory was a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence ai there was much speculation at the time about the future of ai and about the similarities of computing machines and the human mind yale university professor david gelernter urged restraint the idea that deep blue has a mind is absurd how can an object that wants nothing fears nothing enjoys nothing needs nothing and cares about nothing have a mind it can win at chess but not because it wants to it isn t happy when it wins or sad when it loses what are its post match plans if it beats kasparov is it hoping to take deep pink out for a night on the town gelernter 1997 ask ten people to define artificial intelligence and you will get ten different answers this is in some ways beneficial ambiguity firm definitions can be needlessly constraining to those whose role it is to innovate according to stone et al at stanford university the lack of a precise universally accepted definition of ai probably has helped the field to grow blossom and advance at an everaccelerating pace stanford 2016 nevertheless to talk about a thing intelligently it is worth a paragraph or two to define it as it is used in the present discussion the word artificial is relatively easy to define we use it to refer to things that do not occur naturally things that are created by humans the word intelligence is a bit more difficult philosophers psychologists anthropologists and even theologians offer a variety of definitions for the purposes of this article series we will start with a definition which focuses on problemsolving psychologist howard gardner wrote intelligence is the ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings gardner 1983 thus artificial intelligence or ai as we shall use it here is a machine capability which does not occur naturally to solve problems or create something of value we call this the realm of narrow ai where an intelligent apparatus is created to solve a particular kind of problem or create a particular type of valuable thing general ai which theoretically includes nontrivial foresight independent problem identification and problem prioritization based on something like a human value system or humanlike hopes and dreams does not yet exist in gelernter s view the gap between the human and the electronic surrogate is permanent machines will continue to make life easier healthier richer and more puzzling and humans will continue to care ultimately about the same things they always have about themselves about one another and many of them about god gelernter 1976 in the next installment we will consider what does ai offer humankind notes and references portions of this article originally appeared in the journal of the world complexity science academy volume 1 issue 2 as artificial intelligence in mainstream enterprise applications picirillo d 2020 https wwwwcsaglobalorg volume1issue22020  gardner h 1983 frames of mind the theory of multiple intelligences new york fontana press gelernter d 1997 how hard is chess time may 19 1997 stone p brooks r brynjolfsson e calo r etzioni o hager g hirschberg j kalyanakrishnan s kamar e kraus s leytonbrown 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