History
1984: probability theory is
- unusable, because where would we get the numbers
- too computationally expensive
- unnecessary for AI.
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1998: probability theory is everywhere
- MDPs an exciting direction in planning, robot control
- HMMs the core technology for speech recognition
- statistical approaches play key role in NLP
- Naďve Bayes wins KDD cup
- BNs in every Windows™ machine.