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