September 4, 2002
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Birthday of AI guru John McCarthy
If you enter the question “Is there such a thing as artificial intelligence?” as a Google search phrase, you will be referred to ALICE, a chat robot. ALICE’s possible answers include “Yes,” “No,” and “Maybe.” Another search strategy leads to the following Google Directory page:
Computers > Artificial Intelligence >
Neural Networks > Companies.
This page, unlike ALICE, suggests that the appropriate answer to our question is the punch line to an old computer joke: “There is now.”
