Wired’s Joshua Davis writes about the technology behind ‘Stanley’ the winning robot at DARPA’s Grand Challenge
“…This is a watershed moment - much more so than Deep Blue versus Kasparov,” says Justin Rattner, Intel’s R&D director. “Deep Blue was just processing power. It didn’t think. Stanley thinks. We’ve moved away from rule-based thinking in artificial intelligence. The new paradigm is based on probabilities. It’s based on statistical analysis of patterns. It is a better reflection of how our minds work…”