Re: Intelligent Software Is Finding a Commercial Niche

• To: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
• Subject: Re: Intelligent Software Is Finding a Commercial Niche
• From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
• Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:49:55 -0500
• Cc: www-cl@ai.mit.edu
• In-Reply-To: <199702110108.UAA12969@muesli.ai.mit.edu>
• References: <v03010d2faf2568487208@[207.159.82.12]> from "John C. Mallery" at Feb 10, 97 07:08:08 pm
• Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu

It merely reflects the need to spend $50 billion on US education.

Agents= utilartian indifference curves reinvented. Welcome
to the 18th century.

People hack it because the nail is made for their hammer --
simple feature vector algorithms. These have the advantage 
that they can be written in retrograde programming languages 
and they fit within the researcher's cognitive complexity.
Welcome to the 1960s. Of course, real statisticians do a 
much better job.

Another reason for interest is that D&B funded Agent's, Inc
and electronic marketeers see statistical analysis of 
consumer preferences as a gold mine which was previously
accessible only at quite high cost per datapoint. 

Note general ignorance of modern natural language
processing technology and current trends in distributed
knowledge representation.

Looks like a natural fit!

Someone should point Markov at the cl-http applications
section and anyone with intelligent hacks should speak up
and get their URL listed.

• Intelligent Software Is Finding a Commercial Niche
• From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
• Re: Intelligent Software Is Finding a Commercial Niche
• From: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>

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