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From: forbis@milton.u.washington.edu (Gary Forbis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May26.165335.5960@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 May 91 16:53:35 GMT
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In article <1575@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
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>If we form AI models, they will only be approximations to (any) real
>intelligence. This will never change, now matter how good they are.

I always took artificial to mean human made.  If you believe AI is an
attempt to model intelligence then your argument might make some sense.
Birds fly and Airplanes fly though one is natural and one is artificial.
I would never think to talk about Airplanes modeling flight.


--gary forbis@u.washington.edu