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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: 3 Mar 91 15:00:44 GMT
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Chris Malcolm writes:
 > In article <23398@well.sf.ca.us> nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) writes:
 > >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.
 > 
 > [...]
 > -- 
 > Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   +44 (0)31 667 1011 x2550
 > Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
 > 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205

Sorry; on further reading on the article, I think I also
misrepresented the author. Apologies.

%T Today the earwig, tomorrow man?
%A David Kirsh
%J Artificial Intelligence
%V 47
%N 1-3
%P 161-184
%D 1991
%I Elsevier
%C Amsterdam
%E David Kirsh

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