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Great post!
I usually make this argument about algorithms for ad targeting, but the point is the same -- why have we abandoned the truly ambitious research questions in our field for things that are more immediately practical? Are we at a local maxima? How do we shift more resources to these problems?
(I don't have answers, just questions. :)
Commented Jan 30, 2012 on Did Web Search kill Artificial Intelligence? at Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
Did Web Search kill Artificial Intelligence?
The most commonly referenced definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the Turing Test which avoids the tricky questions like 'what is intelligence' or 'what does it mean to think' and replaces them simply by the test of recognizing an anonymous agent as a fellow human (and, therefo...
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