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- From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
- Subject: Re: It is AI when...
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- Date: 14 Nov 92 13:00:13 GMT
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- clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
-
- > Date: 12 Nov 92 20:22:05 GMT
- > Organization: University of Central Florida
- ....
- > If you can discern how it works it's not truly intelligent behavior.
- > You'll know its truly intelligent when you can't figure out how it
- > works.
-
-
- This implies that
- EITHER
-
- (a) human beings, chimpanzees, squirrels (and other things) are
- not truly intelligent
-
- OR
- (b) we'll never understand how they work
-
- I see no reason to believe either, though understanding how they
- work is very difficult and is likely to take many more years. I see
- current AI/Cognitive science as being at a stage that could be
- compared with Galileo's understanding of physics: i.e. some
- important new ideas have emerged, but there`s still a very long way
- to go.
-
- Aaron
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