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- From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
- Message-ID: <52431@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 19:44:05 GMT
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- Reply-To: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
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- ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg) writes:
-
- >Finally, let me quibble a bit with your use of the term "refugees",
- >which brings to mind innocent victims of a disaster not of their
- >making. My perception is that the people being justifiably pruned
- >from AI overlap substantially with those responsible for the hype that
- >surrounded the field in less responsible days.
-
- His original message mentioned under-employment among AI professionals. It
- sounds like anyone graduating with a PhD in AI within the last few years would
- qualify as a "victim" of this. I doubt they are the ones responsible for the
- AI hype of the 70's.
-
- -Tom
-