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Dave McAllester (6.824 - Grad AI)

kerr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kerr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 12 16:26:53 1990

Constraint Satisfaction is NP complete.  The means that very smart people
have worked for 100 years or so in order to find a polynomial time
algorithm and failed.  It is thus very unlikely that AI researchers
would stumble across a polynomial time algorithm.

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