[net.ai] A survey on AI

scm@onion.cs.reading.AC.UK (Stephen Marsh) (05/23/86)

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        I am currently doing a survey on the attitudes and
beliefs of people working in the field of AI. It would be
very much appreciated if you could take the time to save this
notice, edit in your answers and post me back your reply.
        If there are any interesting results, I'll send them
to the net sometime in the future.
                -Thanks
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1. Do you, or have you, undertaken any research in the field
   of Artificial Intelligence?.....
2. In which country was the research undertaken?.....
3. For how long did your research continue?.....
4. If you are not currently working in the field of AI, when
   was the period of your research?.....
5. What area of research did your work cover? (eg IKBS).....
6. Were you satisfied with the results of your research?....
7. Did your research make you feel that in the long term AI was
   not going to succeed in creating an intelligent machine?..
8. Do you find the progress of research in AI in the last
      5 years?......
      10 years?.....
      25 years?.....
   acceptable?
9. What do you consider the main objectives of AI?.....
10. Excluding financial pressures, do you consider that AI
    researchers should reconsider the direction of their
    work?.....
11. Do you consider that the current areas of research will
    eventually result in an 'intelligent' machine?.....
12. Do you consider that the current paradigm of humans producing
    cleverly-written computer programs can ever fulfil the
    initial aim of AI of producing an intelligent machine in the
    accepted sense of the word 'intelligent'?.....
13. Should a totally new approach to producing an intelligent
    machine be found, not based simply on sets of sophisticated
    programming techniques?.....
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scm@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk
Steve Marsh
Dept of Computer Science,
PO Box 220,
University of Reading,
Whiteknights,
READING ,UK.