Old Sins & New Confessions

Many years ago, when AI was young, one of us (Pat) wrote a short article for the AISB Newsletter listing some sins to which AI work was at that time prone. Since those long-gone days, of course, our field has matured and grown wealthy beyond its wildest dreams, and these early faults are no longer committed by the kind of people who read this Magazine. To emphasize how far we have advanced, we reproduce the old list here. Our readers will immediately see that these early mistakes are now completely eliminated. He gives no actual quotes, however.