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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: The future of AI
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Date: 1 Jul 88 23:56:10 GMT
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>|Another thought that has occurred to me (and others) is that few AI
>|researchers have the patience (or the grant money!) to put the kind of
>|time into an AI program that your average parent puts into your
>|average child (not to mention the number of bits the rest of the world
>|feeds a child.)
>
>Hmm. Maybe we should make computers cuter and cuddlier? :-)
>
>	Ken

In a way we have, that's why the academic position of "technical
typist" is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The world used to use
computers for answers, now we all do data entry...it's almost fun
given the right WYSIWYG etc.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University