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From: mack@intvax.UUCP (Michael J. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Buzzword
Message-ID: <3713@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 00:16:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.192044.8055@csn.org>
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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From article <1991Mar6.192044.8055@csn.org>, by tesar@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Bruce Tesar):
>I'm looking for a buzzword that describes problems that at first sound
>easy to do, but when it actually comes down to writing an AI program, the
>problem turns out to be very difficult to solve.
>
How about non-CS AI  for not a computer science AI problem. Or
perhaps we could use the term real or real-world problem.

I say this because a lot of AI problems are picked as easy simply
because the programmer does not have a lot of experience in actually
solving the problem in real life and therefore assumes that it will
be easy. A buzword that said, in effect, that I didn't know much
about the problem and therefore thought that it would be easy to
solve might answer the request.