Is AI a growing field?
queensnake: My total out-of-butt reasoning: with low-level AI-ish things becoming commonplace (computing power getting cheaper, and devices becoming more ubiquitous; ever cheaper, more sophisticated robots, O'Reilly books on Collective Intelligence) and more data around, there'll be more demand for harder, truer-AI stuff. And if somehow there isn't, it still helps to have an understanding of the lower-level, easier stuff.And, there's a lecture on Google video (don't have the link) of a guy going on about how there are lots of expert systems out there run by companies that don't advertise themselves.