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Subject: Re: The future of AI.... (nothing about
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Re: Products in the next 10 years coming from AI.

One thing that is  currently out there,  is a growing  body of expert systems.
Many  new  ones  are being  churned out  as we speak,   and I think  they will
continue to be produced  at a gently accelerating  rate over the  next decade.
But  many expert systems are frightfully  narrow.  They  tend to be simplistic
and only apply when problems are  just right.  So  look for additional layers,
which    begin    to   show     some     real    sophistication.    I   expect
"multi-expert-system-management-systems" to appear  and   to exhibit qualities
that will begin to look like the human traits of  "judgement" and "learning by
analogy", and systems that will improve with time (autonomously).