On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > I completely agree. Both people who > know AI and its history, and people who do not, > are likely to look for, or at least notice, AI. > ML will not do that. > MachineLearning might -- but that is > not the only possible candidate. > For example to avoid the poor connotations of > "Data Mining" the ACM named its special interest group > SIGKDD, where KDD stands for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. > > There are many other terms that cover some or most > of this area -- but only AI has > widespread name recognition. > > I agree that adding subcategories below AI can be useful. > But I too would expect AI::ML to be about the language > ML. > > > Hopefully helpfully yours, > Steve > -- > Steven Tolkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-563-0516 > Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V8D Boston MA 02109 > There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, > not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates.
That was part of the original point, that because of the nonsense around the term AI, that something lower profile would be better. So when you say "but only AI has widespread name recognition," are you agreeing with the proposal, or disagreeing with it? -- Paris
