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HAL drives Microsoft Up the NASDAQ Our New York Bureau 31 DEC In Stanley Kubrick's 1967 landmark film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke envisioned a quasi-human, artificially intelligent computer called HAL 9000 a quintessential intelligent agent, a program capable of conversing with humans on a range of subjects and piloting a spacecraft to Jupiter. Well HAL has done it again, Microsoft Research's first prototype of an Intelligent Agent rocketed Microsoft to an all time high on the NASDAQ. Reports of the success of the prototype sent the markets in a flurry with heavy trading on the NASDAQ. HAL is based on belief networks. Belief networks actually function much like neural networks, but to relief of the symbolists, provide traceable results, unlike multi-layered neural networks. HAL is said to interpret language well enough to create the illusion of comprehension, something the scientific community has been trying to achieve for years. The implications of such a computer has immense applications in medical & defence fields.  |
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