eugene@AMES-PIONEER.ARPA.UUCP (08/11/87)
Subject: Re: Reviews of Dreyfus & Dreyfus? [AI is not alone] > the April 3, 1986, New Scientist, pp. 46-47. Roszak doesn't add much > personal perspective, but views the book favorably: "AI's record of > barefaced public deception is unparalleled in the annals of academic > study." -- KIL] Not too shabby a comment. I would say look to satellite remote sensing as another area which has promised a lot and delivered very little for the dollars put in. [This comment is not mine but people's in RS.] It also started about the same time as AI [maybe a tiny bit later than AI]. Remote sensing offers a basis for comparison of the development of these two sciences. --eugene miya NASA Ames Res Ctr. [ex-RS type] [I'd say it's not really the "sensing" that's failed, but the automation of perception. That turned out to be far harder than anyone imagined -- but has to be solved somehow, regardless of which research effort funds the work. Much of the research done under the remote sensing label is of equal interest for missile guidance, autonomous vehicle and robotic vision, and other military applications. Billing it all to remote sensing is somewhat unfair. (Of course the same could be said for much of the AI research.) -- KIL]