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- From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
- Message-ID: <52414@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 17:31:28 GMT
- References: <x+an!9a.vere@netcom.com> <1992Aug25.141303.175830@ua1ix.ua.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug25.141303.175830@ua1ix.ua.edu> rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun) writes:
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- >AI should be viewed as science, rather than engineering.
- >This way, there will be a lot more solid basic work, a lot less
- >disappointment.
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- I would hope there's room for both science and engineering. Otherwise the job
- prospects for people in AI will be pretty much like those for theoretical
- physicists. (well, we may be at that point now anyway).
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- Funding aspects aside, science and engineering feed one another. Some
- fundamental problems are uncovered and delineated when researchers try to
- apply existing techniques to real-world problems.
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- >The disapointment results from the inflated hopes that AI can
- >create magic with no need for a fundamental understanding of intelligence.
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- The problem is with the "inflated hopes that AI can create magic" -- with or
- without a fundamental understanding of intelligence.
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- -Tom
-