The best thing about AIIDE has to be the industry participation. In my experience, AI researchers are prone to a kind of hubris that expresses itself as “Here is a problem (in games or engineering or medicene) that could be solved using AI. I know all about AI. Therefore, I can solve this problem.” The ‘solutions’ that are thus produced are often laughably innapropriate or otherwise bad when examined by someone who actually works in the field.
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