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Subject: Re: Fresh Ideas (hopefully)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 02:30:32 GMT
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To all those who wrote about my comments on the limits of AI:

What I was trying to say that in the short run the discipline would
be more marketable by making computers understandable (affectionate)
to the laity.  Design what amounts to an expert system on how to use
computers and the world will love you.  It is interesting to the expert
to test whether computers (or people, for that matter) really can or
will think.  Honestly, though, I don't think it will capture the imagination
or the overt support of the average citizen.  Making a computer for intelligent
non-experts will.

For those who commented that a DOS which says "do you mean this?" or goes
ahead and does it if a pattern develops would be dangerous:

Failsafes can be designed to avoid catastrophe's.  Especially in a machine
to human relations mode which I am proposing.

For those who complain that not enough students post on the net:

Here I am, a student.

Michael Bindner
American U., Washington, D.C.