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- From: reiter@eagle.ed.ac.uk (Ehud Reiter)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.103804.9632@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 10:38:04 GMT
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- Reply-To: e.reiter@ed.ac.uk (Ehud Reiter)
- Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
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- With regard to the AI Winter debate, one thing that really bothers me about
- AI is the level of academic dishonesty, i.e., situations where someone gets
- a large research grant to do something which he or she knows is impossible,
- on the theory that `money is money, and once I've got it I can put it to
- good use'. Anyone in the physics community who submitted a grant to build a
- perpetual motion machine would be laughed at, but similar things in AI seem
- to happen all the time, and my fear is that this will lead the outside world
- to regard us as a bunch of charlatans, who don't deserve any funding at all.
- --
- Ehud Reiter
- (e.reiter@edinburgh.ac.uk)
-