Why I Love AI: A Researcher's Case for the Field That Succeeds by Failing

A computer science researcher who began studying AI twenty years ago explains why the field still earns a place in their bio. AI's reputation for failure stems from the "AI Effect," where working systems stop being called AI, leaving only unsolved problems under that label. The field is built on approximating answers rather than achieving perfect ones, as the Travelling Salesman Problem illustrates.