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From: F0O@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: What actually is AI?
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Date: 29 Aug 90 15:26:51 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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     Lately, I've been reading the book, "Man-Made Minds, The Promise of
Artificial Intelligence".  The one thing going through my mind is, what is
it that makes one program AI, but not another?
     I know it has nothing(or very little) to do with the language you use,
so is it the nature of the problem itself that makes a program an AI one,
or is it in how you code the problem?  Some of both?
     Can a certain problem be written using certain coding techniques, and
be an AI program, but yet be written using other coding techniques, and not
be AI?
     Personally, I don't care what a program is called, as long as it does
what it is supposed to!

                                                           [Tim]