The Verdict

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The Verdict

• Daniel S. Weld
• University of Washington

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Sleepless Nights
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PlanningOn Trial

• Council for the Defense
• 10 of AAAI IJCAI on planning
• Strength of ICAPS papers
• Planning competition
• Scaling
• Shared testbeds

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Nagging Doubts
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The Prosecutor Says

• Where are the applications?
• Easy! There are applications
• Manufacturability analysis
• Robotic path planning
• Managing the power grid
• Choosing airborne observations

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But

• Do off-the-shelf planning methods apply to those
  applications?
• Mostly, no!
• Hence, why are we building them?

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The Jurys Still Out

• Choose the right problems
• Aim towards real applications
• Not towards incremental improvement
• Other fields of AI
• Have the same problems
• We need their respect
• for jobs if nothing else