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  1. Newsgroups: comp.ai
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!groucho.csd.uu.se!stephen
  3. From: stephen@groucho.csd.uu.se (Stephen Cooper)
  4. Subject: Re: Mainstreaming AI
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.071228.29785@corax.udac.uu.se>
  6. Sender: news@corax.udac.uu.se
  7. Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
  8. References:  <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:12:28 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu>, danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught) writes:
  13. > My question is, do you know any examples of AI techniques of the past
  14. > that were considered AI when they were being developed, but are now 
  15. > considered commonplace and having nothing to do with AI?
  16.  
  17. One of the Big Guys(tm) in AI -- could it have been McCarthy? -- once said
  18. something like "AI is everything that machines currently can't do"
  19. Anyone know who said this, or what the right quote is?  It'd be great for a
  20. .sig file
  21.  
  22. Stephen "Artificial Intelligence is better than none" Cooper
  23.  
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  25. Stephen Cooper                +46-(0)18-18 10 73 (voice)
  26. Computing Science Dept.            +46-(0)18-52 12 70 (fax)
  27. Uppsala University, Sweden        stephen@csd.uu.se
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