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- From: danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught)
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:25:25 GMT
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- The ACM's guide to computing careers (can't remember the exact name) has
- a (small) section on careers in AI. It says, basically, not to do it,
- that there isn't much of a market for AI professionals. It suggests
- that people interested in AI should apply AI techniques in one of the
- more common computer career areas.
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- Maybe the AI people are the hardest hit in the alleged decline in the
- total population of scientists. Hal Hellman, in his 1976 book,
- _Technophobia_, argues that the number of scientists is declining,
- and the number of genuinely new fields of science are being exhausted.
- "I once asked an editor of _Scientific American_ why their articles were
- often so difficult to read. His answer, only half in jest, was that all
- the simple subjects had been used up. I wonder if that doesn't reflect
- the actual situation in scientific and technological research." (p. 12)
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