Well, part of the problem is the terminology. AI is dead. AI overpromised
and underdelivered every time. All human understanding in 5 years,
speech, vision, planning, everything -- it's 5 years off. 5 sets of
5 years later, AI is still playing with toy problems.
The terms today are "Information theory" and "Machine learning." Anyone
on the bleeding edge of the technology looks at the term "AI" and just
laughs a little inside. Information theory and machine learning
mean nothing as labels, but the terms have grown out the of the ashes
of "AI", and imply a lot more discipline and mathematical rigor.
kevin "firebomb" lenzo
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:20:55PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Simon Cozens writes:
> > I can put you in touch with a couple of bioinformatics/Perl people, but
> > I don't know how much or if that would help.
>
> Thanks, but I already know a few. I was more interested in whether
> there were AI people doing work in the field. If the one response
> I've received is anything to go by, I guess not :-)
>
> Nat
