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From: brh@wjh12.UUCP (Holt)
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Subject: Re: AI Projects on the Net
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Date: Thu, 18-Aug-83 13:40:03 EDT
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	I realize this article was a while ago, but I'm just
catching up with my news reading, after vacation.  Bear with me.
	I wonder why folks think it would be so easy for an
AI program to "change it's thought processes" in ways we humans 
can't.  I submit that (whether it's an expert system, experiment
in KR or what) maybe the suggestion to 'not think about zebras'
would have a similiar effect on an AI proj. as on a human.  After
all, it IS going to have to decipher exactly what you meant by the
suggestion.  On the other hand, might it not be easier for one
of you humans .... we, I mean ... to consciously think of something
else, and 'put it out of your mind'??
	Still an open question in my mind...
(Now, let's hope this point isn't already in an article I haven't read...)

			Brian Holt
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