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Subject: Re: The AI Challenge
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 15:25:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 15:25:00 1983
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I too am skeptical about expert systems.  Their attraction seems to be
as a kind of intellectual dustbin into which difficulties can be swept.
Have a hard problem that you don't know (or that no one knows) how to
solve?  Build an expert system for it.

Ken Laws' idea of an expert system as a very modular, hackable program
is interesting.  A theory or methodology on how to hack programs would
be interesting and useful, but would become another AI spinoff, I fear.