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Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going?
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 09:22:00 EDT
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Maybe you should approach it as a scientist, rather than an engineer.  Think
of the physicists: they aren't out to fix the universe, or construct an
imitation; they want to understand it.  What AI really ought to be is a
science that studies intelligence, with the goal of understanding it by
rigorous theoretical work, and by empirical study of
systems that appear to have intelligence, whatever that is.  The best work
in AI, in my opinion, has this scientific flavor.  Then it's up to the
engineers (or society at large) to decide what to do with the knowledge
gained, in terms of constructing practical systems.