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Applied Intelligent Systems - New Directions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)
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Applied Intelligent Systems - New Directions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 153
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Humans have always been hopeless at predicting the future...most
people now generally agree that the margin of viability in prophecy
appears to be 1 ten years. Even sophisticated research endeavours
in this arena tend to go 2 off the rails after a decade or so. The
computer industry has been particularly prone to bold (and often
way off the mark) predictions, for example: 'I think there is a
world market for maybe five computers' Thomas J. Watson, IBM
Chairman (1943), 'I have traveled the length and breadth of this
country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that
data processing is a fad that won't last out the year' Prentice
Hall Editor (1957), 'There is no reason why anyone would want a
computer in their home' Ken Olsen, founder of DEC (1977) and '640K
ought to be enough for anybody' Bill Gates, CEO Microsoft (1981). 3
The field of Artificial Intelligence - right from its inception -
has been particularly plagued by 'bold prediction syndrome', and
often by leading practitioners who should know better. AI has
received a lot of bad press 4 over the decades, and a lot of it
deservedly so. How often have we groaned in despair at the latest
'by the year-20xx, we will all have...(insert your own particular
'hobby horse' here - e. g.
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