Exercise 1.18

Examine the AI literature to discover whether the following tasks can currently be solved by computers:

  • Playing a decent game of table tennis (Ping-Pong).
  • Driving in the center of Cairo, Egypt.
  • Driving in Victorville, California.
  • Buying a week’s worth of groceries at the market.
  • Buying a week’s worth of groceries on the Web.
  • Playing a decent game of bridge at a competitive level.
  • Discovering and proving new mathematical theorems.
  • Writing an intentionally funny story.
  • Giving competent legal advice in a specialized area of law.
  • Translating spoken English into spoken Swedish in real time.
  • Performing a complex surgical operation.
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