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From: jlc@goanna.OZ.AU (Jacob L. Cybulski)
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Subject: Re: does AI kill?
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The Iranian airbus disaster teaches us one thing about "AI Techniques",
and this is that most of the AI companies forget that the end product
of AI research is just a piece of computer software that needs to be
treated like one, i.e. it needs to go through a standard software 
life-cycle and proper software engineering principles still apply to
it no matter how much intelligence is burried in its intestines.

I don't even mention the need to train the system users.

Jacob