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By Fred Reed, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 22--ARTIFICIAL INTELLECT REMAINS ELUSIVE: Whatever happened to artificial intelligence? There was a time, a couple of decades ago, when computers were expected soon to be able to behave intelligently -- to talk to people in English, answer questions, and make complex decisions.

What people really had in mind was an artificial human. HAL, the computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," comes to mind.

It didn't happen. Today, although computers have advanced phenomen

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