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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI - the real problem
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Date: 4 Feb 91 18:44:15 GMT
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In article <22951@well.sf.ca.us>, nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) said          

>>      There is a bit of hubris in trying to address human-level intelligence
>> from our present level of ignorance.  We now understand that just getting an
>> ant though a minute of life is hard.  Walking over rough ground is hard.
>> Avoiding obstacles is hard.  Picking up things is hard.  Piling things up
>> is hard.  General ant level competence is very hard.

``Ignorance is in the mind of the beholder.''

>>      We will not achieve lizard-level competence until we have ant-level
>> competence well in hand.  We will not achieve rodent-level competence
>> until we have lizard-level competence.  And we will not achieve primate-level
>> competence until we can build rodent-level brains.  And until we have achieved
>> primate-level competence, we will not successfully build a general-purpose
>> human-level AI.

``Intelligence is in the mind of the beholder.''

I agree with John Nagle, I am not attacking him. However,
animal/human/rock intelligence is not a linear process running
parallel to evolution.

``Satori: When the learning curve becomes a step function.''

I just think that we have a long way to go to catch up the dolphins.

``So long and thanks for all the fish.''

Gordon Joly                                       +44 71 387 7050 ext 3716
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