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rjw  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Retake exam today

Yeah I don't expect to see it again...

There are certainly a few subjects that, when asked about the non-academic applications, the lecturers tend to shuffle their feet awkwardly or deliver some obviously-rehearsed spiel. I guess academia is a place for those ideas to stay alive, in the hope that some future discovery then brings them back to life in an altered form. It's happened before, right? There were quite a few people in my department who seemed to be emotionally invested in the return of symbolic AI. We can only wait.