The software lacks intuition, so it couldn't apply its knowledge to chess, checkers or "World of Warcraft," say.
With the help of agricultural experts, the Genova-based scuba diving company is applying its knowledge and technology to finding new ways to produce food.
The Tupelov bureau applied its knowledge from the supersonic project to several military aircraft, including a long-range bomber, the TU-160.
For example, the World Food Programme might contribute its expertise in moving supplies, while the United Nations Children's Fund could apply its knowledge of working with grassroots health networks.
More recently, the company has been applying its knowledge of distributed architecture to tackle other modern file-sharing problems, producing services like Sync to share large files with others, Bundle for content makers to have a way of distributing and selling content; and the Bleep messaging service.
Magic is a wisdom that is at the same time speculative and practical, that applies its own body of knowledge to works that are useful to humankind.
"If an agent does well on Universe tasks, which means it can understand what it needs to do, and do it as a result of applying its prior knowledge, then this agent will be significantly more intelligent than anything that exists today," Sutskevar says.
As if those pursuits weren't enough, 3dStockCharts plans to apply its graphics knowledge to commodities, futures and bonds.
"It (intelligent being) has to put objects into categories so that it may apply its hard-won knowledge about similar objects, encountered in the past, to the object in the hand".
The spread of that disease was fostered by an industry that researched the behavioral and biological basis of tobacco use and addiction and applied its findings and knowledge to develop products and marketing approaches to increase the likelihood that people, especially young people, would try tobacco products and develop persistent use and addiction.
Samsung will apply its "deep marketing knowledge" to make their LED line popular here in the US.
