Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!csm9a.UUCP!japplega From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: Why AI is not a science Message-ID: <469@csm9a.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 00:48:04 EDT Article-I.D.: csm9a.469 Posted: Sat Jul 11 00:48:04 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jul-87 00:37:56 EDT References: <8707031429.AA11064@sunl.ICS> <1005@goanna.oz> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: Colorado School of Mines Lines: 32 Approved: ailist@stripe.sri.com > From jlc@goanna.OZ.AU.UUCP Sat Feb 5 23:28:16 206 > > May be AI is such unorthodox Science, or perhaps an Art. > Let us keep AI this way! I'm not sure there is any maybe about it! AI development, is in my humble opinion, the most creative expression of the programmers art. Any semi- educated fool can code a program... but the creation of a useful, productivity enhancing application or system is far more art than science! The same is more so in AI development, a query and answer style expert system can be coded in basic by a high school hacker... but the true application for AI is in sophisticated applications that employ high quality presentation techniques that eliminate the ambiguities so often present in a text only presentation. One benefit of the advent of the personal computer is the redirection of software product developent away from data driven environment of DP and accounting and towards the presentation style environment of the non-DP professional. Fortunately, most AI development systems are acknowledging this trend by providing graphical interfaces. Art mimics science and the application of science is an art! Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center {seismo, hplabs}!hao!isis!csm9a!japplega or SYSOP @ M.O.M. AI BBS - (303) 273-3989 - 300/1200/2400 8-N-1 24 hrs. *** UNIX is a philosophy, not an operating system *** *** BUT it is a registered trademark of AT&T, so get off my back ***