Ramanathan Guha Netscape Role of AI in the future of information access. The World Wide Web has provided access to so much knowledge, people need help in organizing increasingly large personal information libraries. To provide that help, the creators of aggregation tools must take advantage of AI work in the area of knowledge representation. Knowledge representation is not used to mimic human reasoning, but to provide a robust and extensible framework with which the user's world can be modeled. Marc Raibert Formerly MIT and now Boston Dynamics Simulation systems that enable medical students and doctors to feel what it is like to suture vessels and learn new procedures.
Simulated reality is a reality.
When developing cutting-edge applications, it is imperative to keep the number of high hurdles low. Intelligent HCI systems will lead to a highly fluid organization in which teams can be established and disbanded as needed. Valuable expertise will be brought to bear on a problem as needed but only as long as needed. The rise of rule-based expert systems in the 1980s was predicated on the idea that computers could do what human experts could do, only less expensively. Today, the emphasis is not on doing what people do.