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On 3/30/2012 2:20 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
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> In other words: The academic field of Artificial Intelligence is a field
> where once a phenomena is understood, it is no longer a part of that
> field ;-)

Indeed. When I first studied AI checkers playing was an AI topic. Now,
playing chess at the grand master level is not AI.

Patricia