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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: 5 Feb 91 12:24:38 GMT
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In article <22951@well.sf.ca.us>, nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) says

>      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 achive 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.
> 
>      However, we just might succeed working from the bottom up.

I see a discontinuity in the development intelligence, at the point of
the emergence of homo sapiens. Perhaps there should be a metric of
intelligence, with rocks and logs (cf Twin Peaks) at 0 and us humans
at 1.

    ``There must be something unique about man because otherwise,
    evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz and
    the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.''

The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski, BBC Publications, 1978.

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