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From: leekin@kira.msu.edu (Kin-Wing Edwin Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: What is your favorite definition of AI?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 19:21:54 GMT
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I have encountered many, many times with questions like what is
AI, either from technical or nontechnical people.

For my classmates, I would just tell them to take a "intro" course
on AI, but what if you need to explain to someone in 2 minutes 
what generally AI is, what is its potential and how does it change 
people 's life, in a accurate and concrete sense, so normal people
would not find it hard to understand and people with technical 
background(e.g.CS student) would not think the explanations are 
too vague.

Normally, I try to avoid these type of conversation, with only a
very short period of time, it is difficult to give a taste of the
subject, without going into details and not causing any confusion
from your audiences.


Any comments are welcomed and thanks in advance,

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