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Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why by dmoney on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:55AM (#1974874)
I chalked that up to the billionaire supergenius creator, which also hurts the plausibility a bit.
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Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why by arethuza on Monday December 06, 2010 @07:35AM (#1974940)
Yeah - I think that was the intention of the author. I used to work in AI research so I'm probably being a bit harsh.
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Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why by smallhands on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:08AM (#1975161)
mind sharing why you no longer work in ai research
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Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why by arethuza on Monday December 06, 2010 @10:29AM (#1975440)
It's a long time ago now (late 80s early 90s), but reasons include:

- I hated the politics/game-playing that seem to be a huge component of getting on in academic research

- It was clear to me that we are unlikely to see any fundamental breakthroughs in general AI during my career

- I had been doing work on the Web since '92 and it was clear to me by '95 that this had a much brighter future than "classical" AI

- I co-founded a Web/Java startup in '95

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