Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!ucsd!sdcc6!cornelius!pluto From: pluto@cornelius.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowski) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Help--do you know who said/wrote this? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 21:36:10 GMT References: <1480@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <1991Jun27.121147.25691@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it> <91Jun27.134313edt.559@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 28 Re: "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." >In article <1991Jun27.121147.25691@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it> gin001@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (Mauro Cicognini) writes: >> [...] 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. javier@cs.toronto.edu (Javier Pinto) writes: >I don't know either, but will you care to explain yourself. I don't >understand what you are trying to say here. For instance, when you talk >about ...people who don't believe or don't care about *it*. What is that >*it* refering to? It's illuminating to see the alternative perspectives on this statement. My interpretation of it is the tongue-in-cheek observation: "the tedious rate of progress in the field of AI is enough to attribute the cause of intelligence to something other than that which may be explained via mechanistic models ... probably, it's due to a power greater than myself - most likely god-like."