On: Rethinking artificial intelligence

[yummyfajitas]

Lack of adoption of systems research by desktop operating systems does not prove the absence of interesting systems research.

With the exception of MS, most of the systems research I was referring to is not used in (or intended for) desktop operating systems.

[tjr → yummyfajitas]

And even systems research that is intended for desktop operating systems can be a hard sell. David Gelernter, for instance, has had a lot of interesting ideas, but getting enough regular users to adopt these systems could be a harder task than developing them in the first place.