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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Sentient Beings
Keywords: Artificial Life, Artificial Creatures, Androids
Message-ID: <1736@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Dec 89 18:08:00 GMT
References: <1698@aipna.ed.ac.uk> <11870@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1989Dec3.185506.22039@cs.rochester.edu> <81715@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK.
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In article <81715@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort) writes:
|In article <1989Dec3.185506.22039@cs.rochester.edu>
|yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:

| > I think this points out a need for a third class of AI research:
| > research directed toward building intelligent systems which takes
| > account of the need for an intelligent system to act in the real world
| > -- not just think about acting in Blocks World.  For example: the
| > work of Brooks and Moravec would fall into this category.

|I would like to see the construction of an Artificial Sentient Being
|by the end of the Millenium (just 11 years away).  The question is
|whether SAIL, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, or the Japanese labs will get
|there first.

Sentient? If by sentience you mean to imply conscious awareness I think
we've probably left it too late to get there by the EOM :-) But if
looking like a fish, quacking like a fish, etc., is good enough for you,
then some Scottish labs are in this game too, such as Edinburgh, and the
Turing Institute (Glasgow). Nor should you forget the Brady gang in
Oxford.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK