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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!omondi
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
- Message-ID: <BtIunz.CAx@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- From: Amos.Omondi@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Amos Omondi)
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 04:19:10 GMT
- References: <x+an!9a.vere@netcom.com>
- Organization: Inter-Galactic Probe No. 42
- Lines: 30
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- In article <x+an!9a.vere@netcom.com> vere@netcom.com (Steven Vere) writes:
- >
- > I am writing an article on AI Winter Refugees: un(der)employment
- >among AI professionals. I would like to solicit information and
- >opinions from the AI community on the following points:
- >
- >o what were the causes of AI Winter?
- >o why has AI gone out of fashion in the US industrial sector?
- >o stories of AI professionals or recent graduates who are or have been
- > unemployed or underemployed due to AI Winter;
- >o alternative career paths followed by AI Winter refugees.
- >
- > Countervaling views are welcome, but please be prepared to explain
- >the following phenomena: near-zero employment opportunities advertised
- >in AI Magazine and similar forums; near-zero recruiting at recent AAAI
- >conferences; major declines in attendance at AAAI over the past
- >several years.
- >--
-
- Here is my 2 cents worth: There might be a feeling that, relative
- to what AIers promised to deliver and the quantity of $s that they
- received, there has been little coming out of AI. Whereas in the
- good times employers might be willing to let a few $$$ go down the
- tube, in hard economic times they prefer to have a greater
- probability of return for their investment. Alternative career
- path might be to retrain in something like Networking, Distributed
- Systems, UNIX hacking, etc.
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