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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Shooting pigeons
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Date: 30 Mar 91 17:11:09 GMT
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Len Moskowitz writes:
 > I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that this problem has been
 > addressed and solved very nicely using traditional ( non-AI)
 > technologies.  No AI is needed to track a ballistic target, determine
 > its centroid, and to aim and fire a weapon.
 > 
 > Why re-invent the wheel?
 > 
 > 
 > Len Moskowitz

Yeah; for sure. I never did like the notion that robotics was part of AI;-)

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