On a Distance Function for Ordered Lists

Given two ordered lists of the same elements, we define their distance as the sum for each element of the absolute value of the difference of each element's position in the two lists. Various properties of this distance function are exhibited. In particular, a given list is "far", on the average, from a random list of the same elements

Views of Artificial Intelligence

As time passed, more powerful software tools and bigger and faster computers were used by computer scientists to produce artificial intelligence programs which perform tasks which are similar to tasks that increasingly younger human beings can perform