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Horvitz noted two emerging trends at the conference and in the AI field. First is the growing interest in the web as a source of both structured and unstructured knowledge. For example, not only was there a special track on AI and the web, but during the robot competition, robots accessed the web to gather information about the objects they were to find in the scavenger huntlike event. Second is the work in scaling AI to be more integrative. Instead of the ongoing great successes of AI researches on "wedges" of AI expertise and reasoning, there's increasing work on delivering more depth and breadth of capabilities such as sensing, learning, and reasoning.