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From: aaw@pyuxss.UUCP (Aaron Werman)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: RE: AI Programming
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 09:06:00 EST
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I strongly agree that AI programming tends to be on several levels,
but rather than seeing AI programs as a controller or generator and
and a pragmatic level, I think many AI programs are three levels:
1. organizer, based on feedback from heuristic controller(2)
2. controller, based on results of algorithmic or applicative level(3)
3. worker, playing with real data
	The raison d' might be that most programs <5k statements are
pure applications, programs getting much larger tend to need a single
intelligent controller, while programs in the 20k-100k statement range
(the AI programming thesis level) are in the three level range. All AI
programs bigger than that tend to algorithmic refinements of previous
work, with refiners in terror of changing the basic structure.
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			Aaron Werman