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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going?
Message-ID: <1327@houdi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 13:59:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: houdi.1327
Posted: Tue Sep 29 13:59:04 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Oct-87 05:42:36 EDT
References: <178@usl>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: I thought there were several different currents

In article <178@usl>, khl@usl (Calvin K. H. Leung) writes:
> 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...  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?

I always thought there were several different currents going in AI.
One stream is trying to learn how the human mind works and imitate it. 
Another stream is trying to fill in the gaps in the capabilities of the
human mind by using unique machine capabilities in combination with
imitations of the mind.  Some people are working with research
objectives, some have application objectives.

We don't need a unique goal for AI.  We contain multitudes.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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