Artificial Intelligence: The Next Twenty-Five Years

Through this collection of programmatic statements from key figures in the field, we chart the progress of AI and survey current and future directions for AI research and the AI community. You're on the lookout for fanciful prognostications about technology: Someday computers will fit in a suitcase and have a whole megabyte of memory. And you're wary of lurid Hollywood visions of "the day the robots come": A spiderlike machine pins you to the wall and targets a point four inches behind your eyes with long and disturbing spikes. Your last memory before it uploads you is of it asking, with some alien but unmistakable existential agony, what does this all mean? We are not here to offer a collection of fiction.