To begin to get a feeling for where AI is today, check out the following. The ones marked with (*) have demos that you can run.

• Computing in General: The Substrate for AI
  • Moore's Law
• AI - the big picture
  • The View from AAAI (the main professional organization for AI people). This site provides a great introduction to AI for a general audience.
  • AAAI's weekly list of AI stories in the news
  • The View from MIT
  • The View from CMU. Check out the CS department, the Robotics Institute, and the Language Technologies Institute.
  • (*) The Captcha project at CMU is attempting to find simple tests that are easy for people to pass but impossible for current computers.
  • AI Depot
• Historical Documents
  • The proposal to fund the 1956 Dartmouth conference that is usually credited with launching the field of AI.
  • Alan Turing's 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, in which he proposed the Turing test.
• Knowledge Representation and Common Sense
  • The Semantic Web portal.
  • KM - a knowledge representation language developed at UT by Bruce Porter and his research group.
  • FrameNet, a project whose goal is to build a knowledge base suitable for describing the meangings of words.
  • (*) Open Mind is an MIT project designed to give computers common sense.
  • Cyc Public Ontology is the top layer of a much larger common sense knowledge base that is being built at Cycorp in Austin.
• Classic Small Problems Useful for Studying Search Algorithms
  • Wolf, Sheep, Cabbage
  • Missionaries and Cannibals
  • Family Crossing
  • Cryptarithmetic
• Tools for Learning AI
  • Tools from UBC
• Games
  • Links to many games sites, including software
  • A special issue (v. 134, 1-2, January, 2002) of the journal Artificial Intelligence devoted to games. You can access this online by going through the UT Library's Journals page.
  • A Comprehensive Game Site at The University of Alberta
  • Go
  • Chess
  • (*) Chinook, a champion checkers player
• Speech and Language
  • For a long list in this area, including many demo systems, see the list I've prepared for my Natural Langage Processing class.
• The Arts
  • Aaron: An Electronic Artist
• Robotics
  • A Survey of Robotics from AAAI
  • Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. A more controversion view of the big picture.
  • Rea: The Humanoid Robot
  • (*) Urbie: The Urban Robot
  • Kismet: The Social Robot
• Ethical, Legal, and Economic Issues
  • Marshall Brain's Essays on What Could Happen When AI Succeeds
  • Bill Joy's Essay in Wired
  • Taking Care of an Aging Population