Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsj!jwi From: jwi@cbnewsj.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: What AI is exactly. Summary: Inteligence/intelligible to whom? Message-ID: <1990Sep20.134634.15876@cbnewsj.att.com> Date: 20 Sep 90 13:46:34 GMT References: <3543@gara.une.oz.au> <3815@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26 Harley Davis writes: > I think that I shall never see > Poetry written by a chimpanzee. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Harley Davis internet: davis@ilog.fr > ILOG S.A. uucp: ..!mcvax!inria!davis > 2 Avenue Gallie'ni, BP 85 tel: (33 1) 46 63 66 66 > 94253 Gentilly Cedex > France I have never heard of any experiments in which it was shown that a chimp appreciated human poetry. (Of course I haven't looked very hard, but it seems an unlikely subject for research funding.) It is entirely possible that you may see poetry written by a chimp, but neither recognize it as poetry nor appreciate it -- the same can be said for the scribblings of many immature humans -- unless, of course, you wish to extend this discussion to include *what is poetry?* Jim Winer -- jwi@mtfme.att.com -- Opinions not represent employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "No, no: the purpose of language is to cast spells on other people ..." Lisa S Chabot