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  1. Newsgroups: comp.ai
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!claird
  3. From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
  4. Subject: Re: Mainstreaming AI
  5. Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
  6. Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:10:46 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Jul31.141046.25847@NeoSoft.com>
  8. References: <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu> <Bs67x7.F20@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Jul29.210706.25227@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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  11. In article <1992Jul29.210706.25227@news.cs.indiana.edu> Michael Chui <mchui@spinner.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
  12. >>In article <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu> danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught) writes:
  13. >>
  14. >>My question is, do you know any examples of AI techniques of the past
  15. >>that were considered AI when they were being developed, but are now 
  16. >>considered commonplace and having nothing to do with AI?
  17.             .
  18.             .
  19.             .
  20. >    Graph search techniques such as depth-first, and breadth-first
  21. >search were once considered AI.
  22. >    Statistical classification systems were also once considered AI.
  23. >(Some still are.  Are we statistical classification systems?  Followups
  24. >to comp.ai.philosophy, probably.)
  25.             .
  26.             .
  27.             .
  28. I often chatter about how *all* AI techniques
  29. enter the mainstream.  Early on, chess-playing
  30. and theorem-proving were the paradigms of AI;
  31. now, we know enough to see that those are speci-
  32. alized domains, with techniques and results
  33. which are specific, but accessible to alert
  34. high-school students.
  35. -- 
  36.  
  37. Cameron Laird
  38. claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net)    +1 713 267 7966
  39. claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net)      +1 713 996 8546
  40.