Category talk:Artificial intelligence

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Why is this section so poor?, all kinds of references seem to be missing - Totality, Predicate Calculus, I dont even see cybernetics listed as a subcategory of AI, or even in computing science itself, whats happening!!?.

Lucien86 21:03, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with any Totality associated with artificial intelligence. What is that?

Predicate calculus is under logic, which is not strictly a sub-category of artificial intelligence. The intersection of artificial intelligence and logic is the sub-category "logic programming".

Cybernetics could be a sub-category of artificial intelligence, but I think a better place would be under robotics, which is a subcategory of artificial intelligence.

(Still, it's kind of borderline. For one thing, cybernetics can analyze systems that are not in any sense intelligent, which suggests that, although there is an overlap, cybernetics is not strictly speaking a sub-category of artificial intelligence or robotics. If we want to be far too precise about it, we could make a sub-category "cybernetic robotics" which would cover the intersection of cybernetics and robotics, but this would be overkill, of course. Everything I've just said is overkill.)

(In the same vein, cybernetics is not a sub-category of computer science, since cybernetic systems don't use computers at all.)

(Oddly enough, the category "Cybernetics" lists AI as sub-category! I'm not sure McCarthy or Weiner would argree. This could use some clean up.)

The issue I think you're failing to appreciate is that there are more than a thousand articles in the hierarchy below artificial intelligence. They can't be brought up to the top level, or the category would be useless. (See WP:SUBCAT.) Similarly, we have to be careful about adding things that are only related to AI, but aren't strictly a part of AI. ---- CharlesGillingham 00:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

IA is the most important subject to the modern world if studied without prejudice.A cybernetics and robotics technology helping us explores places man has never reached. [[[xolani ndlovu]]] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.15.123.182 (talk) 11:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)