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From: bmb@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Bankhead)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Thinking Machines
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Date: 6 Dec 90 00:50:50 GMT
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Jeff Lunn expresses the opinion that we would tend to become lazy in an 
environment filled with thinking machines.  I think that every conclusion 
that emerged from such software would be the focus of intense debates just 
as humans argue about conclusions derived by other humans. It seems to 
assume that we would also have a single thinking machine software 
protocol. I think some of the biggest debates would be over the virtues of 
competing systems with each and every sub algorithm the father of some of 
the nastiest flames in the 21st century cyberspace. I believe these 
thinking machines would tend to be used for repetitive "gruntthought" 
(which of these widgets is the most economical?) and it would leave us to 
concentrate on the really creative thinking.
Remember with artificial intelligence must inevitably come artificial 
stupidity!


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