Practical machine intelligence E. D. Sacerdoti

Machine intelligence, more commonly known by the misnomer artifical intelligence, is now about twenty-five years old as a scientific field. In contrast with early predictions, its practical applicability has been frustratingly slow to develop. It appears, however, that we are now (finally!) on the verge of practicality in a number of specialities within machine intelligence more or less simultaneously. This can be expected to result in the short term in a qualitative shift in the nature of the field itself, and to result in the longer term in a shift in the way certain industries go about their business. Machine Intelligence Corporation (MIC) was founded in 1978 as a vehicle for bringing the more practical aspects of the field into widespread use.