One other observation I forgot to mention: Several people brought up the desirability of some kind of benchmark problem area to help compare the methods and effectiveness of various approaches. For a bunch of reasons I think it will be difficult to define such things in a way that researchers will pay attention to, but if it could be done (either as simply a commonly-understood point of reference for discussions or as a "grand challenge" or anything in between) it would be very neat, and in my opinion beneficial to the field as a whole. I have a suggestion for such a task: figuring out how to operate the buttons-and-light system that determines whose turn it is to talk during panel discussions. It may be too ambitious though, as clearly it requires superhuman intelligence (har har har).
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