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From: nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI - the real problem
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Date: 28 Feb 91 19:49:25 GMT
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G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:

>There was a suggestion in the AI Journal that 2.5 million years of
>humanity compared with the rest of life on earth meant that simulating
>the IQ of an earwig or a lizard meant that you were almost home and
>dry, and that human IQ was within spitting distance.

     Reference, please.

     I've been saying something like that for a few years, although
more along the lines that once we get up to low-end mammal capability
we should almost be there.  This follows Sir John Eccles' comments
in "Evolution of the Brain" that the brains of mammals differ only
quantatitively.

     The discouraging thing is that even building an ant brain is hard.
The encouraging thing is that this is now recognized.

					John Nagle