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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Fresh Ideas (hopefully)
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.184125.7044@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:41:25 GMT
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In article <90277.034819BINDNER@auvm.auvm.edu> <BINDNER@auvm.auvm.edu> writes:
>A few thoughts on the limits and potentials of AI.
>
>First the limits.  I don't think AI will ever be able to really duplicate
>human judgement.  It may one day be the compliment of man's rational

  You give up too easily.

>   - mistake correction.  If I type Logim and it needs Logon it should
>     ask me "Do you mean Logon?" and if I respond Yes (or Y or sure
>     depending upon how well it knows me) after a number of repeated
>     trial (2 to 5 depending upon how similar the command or error is
>     to other commands) it will automatically say "I assume you meant
>     Logon" and implement the command without asking me.
>
  Great.

  So you type:
	rem *
intending to prepare a comment for a language such as BASIC.  The computer
says:
	Do you mean rm * ?
You, being used to the computer making excellent guesses, reply Y
without a moment's hesitation.  And there goes a weeks careful work.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940