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maybe in an ideal conditions three different forms could exists....but currently I think that the machine learning has the biggest chances... and should be some kind of fork from the crossvalidated. If everything goes well ( after several months or years) then NLP / Robotics / AI. can be split from this. but to have three proposal at the same time competing on the same audience.....could be a dead-end to all of them. please see: Closed AI project

Proposal: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Proposal: Machine Learning Proposal: Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics (NLP/CL)

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@RobertCartaino this has been suggested many times now. Could we maybe get a feedback from you, if you consider merging these proposals, or not and why? Thanks alot! :) – eowl Jan 27 at 23:14
There are two more proposals which would fit to that site: Robotics and Computer Vision – eowl Jan 27 at 23:24
[status-deferred] until one of the CS communities stands up united to do this. See my answer below. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 6 at 21:55
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This has been suggested before, not only once (e.g. here, here and here). Some people thought that "Computational Intelligence" or "StackBot" would be a good name for such a merged site. If you have any ideas how to make it happen - go for it! (Maybe more moderator nagging is needed? I don't know what more to do.) Anyhow, I support the idea of a new AI site on SE.

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Stackbot, Stackbot, Stackbot ;))) – Merlin Feb 3 at 1:57
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The answer I was given when I asked about this before was that AI was a honeypot for questions that belong elsewhere.

I can't see these individual proposals having a healthy beta (but it would be great of they did make it).

TBH I continue to suspect that it would better if I killed the AI and Robitics proposal to give the individual proposals a better start. I would prefer that the much vaulted combined site was championed by the mods, although I'm dead against this being commandeered by CS zealots ... I feel that a stack community should be inclusive.

Any feedback on this would be helpful.

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@Mertin. the ML is going now into beta! so maybe you prefer to stay on hold for some time with the "AI and Robitics" proposal to give the chance for the ML to pass the beta step. – Dov Feb 3 at 6:43
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Creating a combined "Computer Science" site has been attempted on many occasions. The larger community seems to want it, but it is almost always met with contempt and disdain by those participating in the individual subjects.

Area 51 does not handle this very well, so we've been going forward with these individual sites (Cryptography, Computational Science, CSTheory (merge rejected), AI (closed), and now Machine Learning) until one of the Computer Science communities stands up and has a cohesive conversation and comes to a consensus about creating a more comprehensive Computer Science site.

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Please note that I'm not talking about combining Cryptography, Computational Science & CSTheory -- those last three are really in different domains of CS which IMHO not related to ML. however I do talk about AI & NLP/CL. which are overlapped in many meaning. - thanks! – Dov Feb 7 at 11:21
@Dov Once the site is created, it is easy enough to expand or refine the scope into similar fields. I'll even contact the proposal followers, if a sensible consensus can be reached and implemented. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 7 at 15:00
"...until one of the Computer Science communities stands up and has a cohesive conversation and comes to a consensus about creating a more comprehensive Computer Science site." huh? what does this mean? as you state area51 just doesnt really have any kind of a merging mechanism built into it, does it? lacking this I say the separate coalitions will never unify no matter what the subj [CS, underwater basket weaving, whatever] – vzn Feb 11 at 3:12
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