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From: khl@usl (Calvin K. H. Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Goal of AI: where are we going?
Message-ID: <178@usl>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 06:04:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 06:04:22 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 10:37:27 EDT
Reply-To: khl@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Calvin Kee-Hong Leung)
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Should the ultimate goal of AI be the perfecting of human  intel-
ligence,  or the imitating of intelligence in human behavior?

We all admit that the human mind is not flawless.  Bias decisions
can be made due to emotional problems, for instance.  So there is
no point trying to imitate  the  human  thinking  process.   Some
current  research  areas  (neural  networks, for example) use the
brain as the basic model.  Should we also spend some time on  the
investigation  of some other models which could be more efficient
and reliable?

Provided that we have the necessary technology  to  build  robots
that  are highly intelligent; they are efficient and reliable and
they do not possess any "bad" characteristic that man has.   Then
what  will be the roles man plays in the society where his intel-
ligence can be viewed as comparatively "lower form"?

AI, where are we going?