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Comment author: timtyler 23 May 2010 06:49:18AM *  3 points [-]

Re: Is artificial intelligence, rightly considered, an empirical science? If not, what is it?

Not exactly science: more technology and engineering.

Comment author: billswift 23 May 2010 11:07:21PM 1 point [-]

The current state of AI seems to fit comfortably within Eric Drexler's "Theoretical Applied Science", see Appendix A of "Nanosystems" for a description and a "contrast and comparison" with engineering and theoretical physics.