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- From: chrisk@fester.dell.com (Chris Kostanick - X6736)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
- Subject: Re: Minds, Computers and Searle
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:36:28 GMT
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- christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
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- >To repeat for the 37,000th time, the CR -- right or wrong -- is directed
- >at Strong AI only. The vast majority of cognitive scientists I deal with,
- >in both psychology and AI, are not proponents of strong AI, and many find
- >the idea somewhat ludicrous. The "targets" are McCarthy, Minsky, and
- >Newell & Simon (as Searle himself states explicitly).
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- I'm curious as to what you think is possible in AI, weak or strong.
- Let's assume that compute power will continue to grow for another
- couple/three hardware generations. This should make 100 Mip machines
- readily accessable. What do you think an AI program running on
- one (with suitable robot effectors and vision aparatus) could do?
-
- This isn't the prelude to flamage by the way, I work with robots
- and am somewhat amazed by how good robotic hand/eye coordination
- can be in the right environment.
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- Chris Kostanick
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