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Re:The end of AI winter? by lliiffee on Thursday October 01, 2009 @05:58PM (#855933)
My point is that there IS no serious "pure" AI research these days. Your image of lots of pure AI researchers wasting their time is a fantasy-- those people don't exist. People work on applications.
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Re:The end of AI winter? by yummyfajitas on Thursday October 01, 2009 @09:50PM (#856268)
"Those people don't exist" is a bit of an exaggeration. Eliezer Yudkowsky exists, for example.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eyudkowsky

His research is in making AGI (artificial general intelligence) not go skynet by building in morals. That seems fairly pure to me.

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Re:The end of AI winter? by endtime on Friday October 02, 2009 @12:37AM (#856453)
Yes, "Those people don't exist" isn't technically correct; perhaps it should have been "Those people don't exist in significant numbers."

The point is that people who call themselves AI researches, the vast majority of the time are not working on AGI but on weak AI.

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Re:The end of AI winter? by chime on Thursday October 01, 2009 @07:36PM (#856084)
And yet there are numerous people who work on pure math and theoretical physics.
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