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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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Subject: Re: Technology Review article
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 14:46:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 14:46:53 1986
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <7500002@ada-uts.UUCP> richw@ada-uts.UUCP writes:
>like: "In 25 years, AI has still not lived up to its promises and
>there's no reason to think it ever will" (not a direct quote; I don't

Still thinking that fundamental breakthroughs in AI are achievable in such an
infinitesimal amount of time as 25 years is naive.  I probably was not even
born when such claims could have been justified by sheer enthousiasm... Not
that we cannot get interesting and perhaps even useful developments in the
next 25 years.

>P.S.  You might notice that about 10 pages into the issue, there's
>      an ad for some AI system.  I bet the advertisers were real
>      pleased about the issue's contents...

Nowadays you don't ask for a grant or try to sell a product if the words "AI,
expert systems, knowledge engineering techniques, fifth generation and natural
language processing" are not included.  

Advertisement is about creating hype, and it really works -- for a while,
until the next "in" thing comes around.
-- 

Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.

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