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From: kirby@ut-ngp.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: The future of AI.... (nothing about flawed minds)
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 15:30:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 15:30:06 1987
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Organization: Center for Cybernetic Studies,  U. of Texas,  Austin,  TX
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I have a question for people:
   What practical effects do you think AI will have in the next ten
years?

What I am interested in is discovering what people expect to actually
come out of AI research in the near future,  and how that will affect
society,  business and government.  I am not interested in the
long-term questions of what AI will eventually accomplish.

Some supplementary questions:
   - What field of AI will produce practical applications?
   - What will be the effect of a new application? (e.g. how would an
effective translation mechanism affect the way people function?)
   - Who is likely to produce these useful applications?  How are they
to be introduced?

Any comments/responses are welcome.  I am just trying to get a feel
for what other people see as the near-term effects of AI research.

Bruce Kirby
kirby@ngp.utexas.edu
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