Technology Transfer

Teknowledge, Inc. Palo Alto, CA 9&'01 Over the past few years, the character of the AI community has changed. Artificial intelligence is not in itself a commercial field, but a science and a technology As an academic discipline, it is a collection of concepts and ideas which are appropriate for rcscarch, but which cannot be marketed. However, artificial intelligence is the scientific foundation for several growing commercial technologies The three most important are robotics and vision (which for simplicity's sake I will consider as one field), natural language processing, and knowledge engineering. Supporting markets are forming which will provide hardware and software tools for use in these three areas. The potential value of Artificial Intelligence can be bctter understood by contrasting it with natural intelligence.