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Disciplines in Artificial Intelligence
I have seen a discussion about the disciplines (a.k.a. the academic fields) that comsist of the strong AI research (strong AI is the implemenation of real intelligence; weak AI is the mimic of the intelligent behaviours) on the usernet comp.ai.philosophy. Summarising the discussion, there are seven distinct disciplines as follows:
- Philosophy
- Mathematics
- Computational Neuroscience
- Electronic Engineering (a.k.a Eletronics and Computer Science)
- Information Retrieval
- Cognitive Psychology
- Computer Science (emphasis on Artificial Intelligence)
To my knowledge, what I am wondering is whether the researches related to robotics are missing here. If not, which one or more of the disciplines above spots it? Or should we list it as the eighth? Robotics is the first impression for the people to understand the disciplines/technologies within the AI research. Although the research of robotics include many of the disciplines above, we could not decouple every piece of them. If that is case, I think the list should have only one item, i.e. mathematics, because mathematics is foundation of all of the disciplines listed, even for the robotics. The our discussion about the discipline in the Strong AI research is meaningless.
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