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From: malyanka@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu (Raphael Malyankar)
Subject: Your Thoughts on AI Jobs
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In article <nagleE77DBn.IsJ@netcom.com>, John Nagle <nagle@netcom.com> wrote:

+     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.

What about scheduling applications and natural language
understanding? Looks like there's something there. And intelligent agents
too, though some might protest at the thought of linking agents and AI.

>					John Nagle


Raphael
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