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From: waldau@kuling.UUCP (Mattias Waldau)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going?
Message-ID: <499@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 05:11:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 05:11:37 1987
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References: <178@usl>
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Organization: Dept. of Computing Science, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <178@usl> khl@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Calvin Kee-Hong Leung) writes:
>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"?
>
One of the short stories in Asimov's "I, robot" is about the problem
mentioned in the previous paragraph. It is about a robot and two humans
on a space station near our own sun. I can not tell more, otherwise I 
spoil your fun. It is very good!