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From: hodsdon@scoot.netis.com (Steve Hodsdon)
Subject: Re: Programable AI, Why?
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Organization: Pragmatic Designs
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:58:08 GMT
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virtuall@netcom.com wrote:

>Steve Hodsdon (hodsdon@scoot.netis.com) wrote:
>: Does John & Jane Q. Public really want to have programmable AI?  Or
>: are we creating something that only a few of us (AI types) are
>: interested in?

>As far as I am concerned, the target audience for writing programmable AI
>is ME and the rest of my development team.  If I hard-code some big state
>machine, and in final QA it turns out to be dumb as a brick, I've got a real
>problem.  If, however, it is a programmable system, I (or even the testers)
>can easily change the programming in the final mix.  

I see.  Somehow I latched onto the fact that programmable AI was for
the end user, not the developer.  Looking back on all these old
messages makes more sense in this light.

Never mind...  :)

Steve


