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The “fifth decade of Artificial Intelligence”, the period from 1996 to 2006, has been a decade of success for AI. Computers beat the residing world chess champion. AI companies like Google and Yahoo! have been taking over the world. And AI research changed forever the nature of other scientific fields, like biology and cognitive science. So how could this happen?
In my humble opinion, the fifth decade of AI has been the decade of data and statistics. Data has been available for many years, but somehow the amount of available data exploded in the past decade. The advent of the World Wide Web made huge numbers of documents, images, and videos available online. Hundreds of AI researchers refocused their energy on the Web. AI systems were developed for learning people’s browsing patterns, for raking online music, for finding and parsing job advertisements, and for making search more effective. Out of this grew a billion-dollar industry, with Google being the most significant example.
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Thrun, S. (2007). 1996-2006 Autonomous Robots. In: Freksa, C., Kohlhase, M., Schill, K. (eds) KI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4314. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69912-5_37
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