Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!ztivax!luhn From: luhn@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Achim Luhn) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The Turing Test is no good! Message-ID: <1787@ztivax.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 90 14:34:40 GMT References: <2860@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <3156@gara.une.oz.au> Reply-To: luhn@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Achim Luhn) Distribution: comp Organization: Siemens AG, Munich, W-Germany Lines: 25 From evers@apollo21 Thu Aug 30 16:34:01 1990 Received: by ztivax.uucp; Thu, 30 Aug 90 16:33:58 +0200 From: Hr. Evers Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 16:28:55 mes Message-Id: <9008301428.AA00431@apollo21> To: luhn@ztivax Status: R I have a brief point to make here about what Phillip(I think) said about it being useless developing AI systems the reproduce human though. True : we will be made redundant and that is frightening but we must learn to control our source of intelligence. Machines will not simply copy our intelligence and drop dead... It is obvious that they will go much further than we could ever perceive. We are unfortunate that our brains, though very flexible and good at controlling our bodies, are simply not reliable enough. How much, as a percentage of what your senses inform you, do you think you can remember ? A gross exageration may be 0.1% Compare that to any silicon based system today and you'll feel inferior... I have diverted a bit, so to get back to the point : We can design and build intelligent systems, (and they will continue to design further such intelligent systems), our only qualm is that we are afraid.... Since when have we been too cowardly to advance !