arras@icase.edu (Michael Arras) (03/05/91)
I'm looking for a buzzword that describes problems that at first sound easy to do, but when it actually comes down to writing an AI program, the problem turns out to be very difficult to solve. For example, a planning program to buy food at the store. Anybody can actually do it, but implementing a program that plans the tasks at a very detailed level can become quite a complex task, as I'm sure you know. A professor notioned at "cryptohard". Surely, there must be a better word then that. All suggestions will be carefully thought over. Thank you. Mike Arras arras@icase.edu arras@cs.wm.edu ICASE/NASA Langley College of William and Mary
hugh@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Mr. Hugh Jack) (03/06/91)
The way you could think of, and phase the concepts is, A problem which is "Conceptually Sparse" is often "Detail Intensive" "If electrons are not endangered, why are we trying to conserve them?" hugh@engrg.uwo.ca
swota@cs.albany.edu (Judith Swota) (03/07/91)
In article <1991Mar4.170121.9630@news.larc.nasa.gov> arras writes: > I'm looking for a buzzword that describes problems that at first sound > easy to do, but when it actually comes down to writing an AI program, the > problem turns out to be very difficult to solve. [...deleted...] > A professor notioned at "cryptohard". Surely, there must be a better > word than that. How about bundt? A bundt is a kind of ring cake that looks simple but is actually a pain to make (anyway, I think so), and provides a nice counter to "it'll be a piece of cake". What if it's a piece of bundt. Along similar lines, I can suggest chiffon, black-velvet, and petit four, but on the whole I think bundt is the funniest. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judith | | Think honk if you're a telepath swota@cs.albany.edu |