johnsuth{at}acenet.com.au wrote in
news:20041101100355.770622E01F4{at}anti-spam.acenet.com.au: 

>   
> Thanks Michael for the article.  The high school computing studies
> syllabus in my neck of    the woods requires me to wax lyrical to my
> students about AI software.  I tell them that it    is conspicuous by
> its absence where it is needed most: hospital emergency reception and 
>   MS Windows Help.  Each of these situations can more than justify the
> investment in AI    software, but to the best of my knowledge, no such
> investment has been made.  I suggest    that AI is vapourware, it has
> not evolved, but I will be happy to hear arguments to the    contrary.
>  
>   
> (If you think that Windows Help is intelligent, then we will have to
> agree to disagree)  


To the best of my recollection, of all the times I have tried to use 
Windows Help I have never once found it helpful. It is probably an 
indication of the "hope that springs eternal" that I occasionally
still try 
to use it. Its lack of usefulness is probably a good example of the results 
of drift in the absence of selective pressure :-)

Yours,

Bill Morse
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