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This paper provides a brief historical introduction to the machine intelligence endeavour, and to the discipline of artificial intelligence (AI) whose techniques are employed in building intelligent software systems. It also presents some AI success stories both outside and within BT.
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Nwana, H.S., Azarmi, N., Smith, R. (1997). The rise of machine intelligence. In: Nwana, H.S., Azarmi, N. (eds) Software Agents and Soft Computing Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62560-7_49
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