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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Your Thoughts on AI Jobs
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Jaron Collis <j.collis@qub.ac.uk> writes:
>"What sort of jobs exist for AI researchers ?"
>Having finished my PhD, my thoughts have turned to what to do next.

     A bit late, what?

     Much of commercial "AI" today consists of writing rules for
business applications, which in practice is only slightly better
than writing COBOL applications.  Robotics is very slow right now.
Vision processing is becoming popular, but in practice it
means building inspection systems for industrial plants.
Video games are using more AI, if you're into that.
Fuzzy logic seems to have peaked.  Neural nets are used
in a few applications, but not many.

					John Nagle
