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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!mchui@spinner.cs.indiana.edu
  2. From: mchui@spinner.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Chui)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.ai
  4. Subject: Re: Mainstreaming AI
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.130055.18746@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 18:00:49 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul29.203044.9047@mercury.unt.edu> <1992Jul30.071228.29785@corax.udac.uu.se>
  8. Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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  11. In article <1992Jul30.071228.29785@corax.udac.uu.se> stephen@groucho.csd.uu.se (Stephen Cooper) writes:
  12. >One of the Big Guys(tm) in AI -- could it have been McCarthy? -- once said
  13. >something like "AI is everything that machines currently can't do"
  14.  
  15.     Similarly, John Perry has described philosophy as being the study
  16. of "everything else" which isn't well understood.  For example, the basic
  17. sciences, and medicine, were considered once part of philosophy.
  18.  
  19. Michael Chui
  20. mchui@cs.indiana.edu
  21.