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From: marty1@houem.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Proposed: a split of this group
Message-ID: <720@houem.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 13:48:31 EST
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Just suggested by jbn@glacier.UUCP (John Nagle):

>     I would like to suggest that this group be split into two groups;
>one about "doing AI" and one on "philosophising about AI", the latter
>to contain the various discussions about Turing tests, sentient computers,
>and suchlike.

Good idea.  I was beginning to think the discussions of "when is an
artifice intelligent" might belong in "talk.ai."  I was looking for
articles about how to do AI, and not finding any.  The trouble is,
"comp.ai.how-to" might have no traffic at all.

We seem to be trying to "create artificial intelligence," with the
intent that we can finally achieve success at some point (if only we
knew how to define success).  Why don't we just try always to create
something more intelligent than we created before?  That way we can not
only claim nearly instant success, but also continue to have further
successes without end.

Would the above question belong in "talk.ai" or "comp.ai.how-to"?

						Marty
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