Techniques and Methodology

Editors' Note: In this provocative article Doyle suggests that I thank Jaime Carbonell, John McDermott, Joseph Schatz, and Derek Sleeman for helpful discussions and comments This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), ARPA Order No. 3597, monitored by the Air Force Avionics Laboratory under Contract F33615-81-K-1539. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author, and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or the Government of the United States of America Abstract, Knowledge engineers qualified to build expert systems are currently in short supply The production of useful and trustworthy cxpcrt systems can he significantly increased by pursuing the idea of nrCiculate ayprentzce.ship This revolution is very important. We now actively seek out tasks for automation that would never have been considered previously. It seems clear that the work of our society and industry includes many economically important (if often mundane) tasks whose automation may be possible with the new techniques.