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Subject: Re: Technology Review article
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 14:55:00 EST
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ha ha ha!  "taxonomy of the field" -- the latest gospel of AI?  Let me be
impudent enough to claim one of the most misguided AI efforts to date is
taxonomizing a la Michalski et al:  setting up categories along arbitrary
lines dictated by somebody or other's intuition.  If AI does not have
the mechanism-cum-explanation to describe a phenomenon, what right does it
have to a) taxonomize it and b) demand that its taxonomizing be recognized
as an achievement?

			-- Marek Lugowski
			   an AI graduate student (in perpetual blush for
					           AI's excesses)
			   Indiana U. CS