Jean-Guy Meunier

Artificial intelligence and sign theory

Research in artificial intelligence is often regarded as pertaining to the fields of engineering or informatics. Intelligent robots, expert systems, automatic translators, so it is said, belong to the world of computer technology.But is this really the case? Even a cursory study will easily show that things are not that simple as a well orchestrated marketing would have us think. A deeper analysis of the problem would easily show that AI is much more an undertaking that pertains to formal and abstract discipline than to concrete and material technologies. The following essay will attempts to show that AI is in fact related intimately to abstract disciplines and, more specifically, to semiotics ;it is a applied semiotic venture.