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Subject: Inscrutable Intelligence
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Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 03:03:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 03:03:00 1983
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 the normal
science phase.

    However, one can make an empirical argument that this activity has little
    impact on technical progress.

Let's see your empirical argument.  I haven't noticed any intelligent machines
running around the AI lab lately.  I certainly haven't noticed any that can
carry on any sort of reasonable conversation.  Have you?  So, where is all
this technical progress regarding understanding intelligence?

Make sure you don't fall into the trap of thinking that intelligent machines
are here today (Douglas Hofstadter debunks this position in his "Artificial
Intelligence: Subcognition as Computation," CS Dept., Indiana U., Nov. 1982).