By JOHN MARKOFF * [original link(You have to be logged in to read it)](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/business/12web.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=a34a6306f48166fb...

The text [Machine Visions: towards a poetics of Artificial Intelligence][1] just came in time as I was questioning myself if we were going to cover the use o...