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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Common Sense and Expert Systems
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Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 14:30:43 EDT
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This article is from mit-eddie!mck-csc!bmg (B. Gunther)
 and was received on Thu Jul 10 22:28:15 1986

 Why can't the database be huge?  Who is to say that large teams of
 programmers can't instill in one massively parallel and *huge* machine
 much of that common sense?  Once the computer/complex is large enough,
 why not give it robot sensors which can interact with the world and
 allow it to "learn" and watch what others do?

 I'm not saying it necessarily possible currently (given both technology
 and resources people are willing to devote to the subject), but who is
 to say that it's impossible?

     Benrie Gunther