Abstract
Artificial intelligence research has almost completed its first stage from 1950’s to today and now is proceeding to the second stage. In order to discuss the features of artificial intelligence research in the second stage, I first overview the flow of artificial intelligence research in the past and point out that the prominent contributions were a large scale search, knowledge-based system, language-speech-image processing, planning, machine learning and data mining, and amalgam of artificial intelligence and art. Then, I argue that our future target should be not just implementing high-level problem solving, but also designing communicative intelligence that will induce the user’s deep empathy for integrating the human society and computational intelligence to augment the society of natural and artificial minds.
