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From: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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Subject: Re: Help--do you know who said/wrote this?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.151612.7996@news.media.mit.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:16:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.121147.25691@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it> gin001@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (Mauro Cicognini) writes:
>Cindy Sarmiento asks if anyone knows to whom the following quote is
>attributed:
>
>"A year spent in artificial intelligence is 
>enough to make one believe in God."
>
>Unfortunately, I don't know. But sure it's a statement of great hope -
>at least for the people like me who see the computer environment populated
>more and more by people who don't believe or don't care about it.
>Thanx to Cindy for letting us know the quote.
>Mauro Cicognini - gin001@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it

Aphorisms are often nice ways to summarize insights -- but they are
often very bad ways to conceal prejudices and/or hidden assumptions.
In this case, does anyone know of a single case in which spending a
year working on AI caused anyone to believe in a god, who didn't
believe in one before?