Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!velasco From: velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: AI genealogy Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 21:14:59 GMT References: <5466@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <17078@venera.isi.edu> <17081@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 18 smoliar@isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) writes: >... there is a danger of getting hung up >on the words themselves. One of the greatest dangers in artificial >intelligence is a tendency to push words around too casually--particularly >words for which it is unclear that any two users of the words really have >corresponding intuitions. Figuring out just what an AI person is talking >about when he uses a particular word is often an extremely challenging task. It would be interesting to see if people who are more closely related in the AI genealogy tree have more closely corresponding intuitions about the meanings of particular words. -- ________________________________________________ <>___, / / | ... and he called out and said, "Gabriel, give | /___/ __ / _ __ ' _ / | this man an understanding of the vision." | /\__/\(_/\/__)\/ (_/_(/_/|_ |_______________________________________Dan_8:16_|