Richard, I entirely agree with your comments. I would like to eventually stop programming in Java and have the system do that for me. I am strongly motivated to build its dialog component first because that addresses the issue of how to collaborate with the system when the "rough seas" are encountered. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860
----- Original Message ---- From: Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 10:16:34 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Reading on automatic programming? [snip] It seems to me that most AP approaches are geared toward the "plain sailing" problems that do not have the nasty little issues described above, and that the "rough seas" type of problems are postponed for another day. Since an awful lot of good work can go into solving plain sailing systems that are very large (Czarnecki & Eisenecker, for example), it can seem like good progress is being made. I think what then happens is that people do not realise that, in order to go on to the nasty type of programming problem (i.e. 99% of all programming problems), all the previous work may count for nothing, because it did not even in principle address such deep issues as what to do if the only way forward is to find the right textbook, read a couple of pages, and understand it. Of course, the same criticism can be levelled at many approaches to the entire AI problem, never mind just the AP problem. :-) Richard Loosemore ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=94219347-aa2026
