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Don't be so sure of what? I am totally positive that most people don't give a shit about machine learning or data mining even though it's amazing technology. I

• yamada 19y ago
  About not believing in the inevitable coming of bona fide AI, as you sate in your post above. For all you know it's happening already on the internet in some weird way that remains as incomprehensible to us as your mind does to the brain cells that it consists of.
• queensnake 19y ago
  No, people care, interest is growing. There's even an /O'Reilly/ book, 'Programming Collective Intelligence'. If the growth rate hasn't been enough to catch your un-aided attention, well I don't have data, but my sense is that the technical culture knows it's the /here/ thing and the way things are going to be. (A popular-level book, 'Super Crunchers' just came out too, btw.) If it means anything, be glad you're that little bit ahead of the curve; but the curve is there. I share your frustration that Machine Learning isn't part of the /core curriculum/ of every CS program, but I bet it'll become more widely available at least. The job market for ML professors is no doubt going to be very, very good shortly.