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From: savel@hoss.unl.edu (Bharat P. Savel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Processors (was Re: 64-bit microprocessors)
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Date: 16 Aug 90 21:19:19 GMT
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In article <BECKMANN.90Aug15211716@endor.harvard.edu> beckmann@endor.harvard.edu (Gary Beckmann) writes:
>
>My feeling is that I don't really need a chip to do what I do so well
>-- think fuzzy, recognize patterns and speech.  Every lay person seems
>to think that AI will allow us to replace humans with computers.  They
>don't seem to realize that a machine that thinks fuzzily will be as
>prone to mistakes as a human -- and for the same reasons.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

quite on the contrary; it is supposed to be 'self-correcting';
options/mistakes are stored in a data-base where from it makes a
selection; also this is a very vague desription of the field, and i am not
qualified to make any tech. remarks

-savel