Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!dsl.pitt.edu!dsl.pitt.edu!geb From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: What AI is exactly. Message-ID: <1990Sep23.201242.4976@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu> Date: 23 Sep 90 20:12:42 GMT References: <3543@gara.une.oz.au> <3815@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1990Sep20.134634.15876@cbnewsj.att.com> Sender: news@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 10 > I think that I shall never see > Poetry written by a chimpanzee. No, but you may have seen modern art painted by one. A few years ago someone as a prank had a chimp paint some pictures which subsequently got good reviews at an art show, including praise from Picasso. When the prank was unveiled, a reporter asked Picasso if he wasn't embarassed over his mistake. He went into the other room, then came back in shrieking and jumping about chimp-like, hopped over to the reporter and bit him!