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From: mdl@cci632.UUCP (Michael Liss)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going? (the right way?)
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 14:57:47 EST
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In article <285@usl> khl@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Calvin K. H. Leung) writes:
>I agree with the idea that there must be some mechanisms that our
>minds  are  using.   But  the different reasoning methods (proba-
>bilistic reasoning, for instance) that we  are  studying  in  the
>area  of  AI are not the way one reasons: we never use the Bayes'
>Theorem in our thinking process.   The  use  of  those  reasoning
>methods, in my point of view, will never help increase our under-
>standing of human behavior.  Because our minds  just  don't  work
>that way.

I read an interesting article recently which had the title:
"If AI = The Human Brain, Cars Should Have Legs"

The author's premise was that most of our other machines that mimic human abilites
do not do so through strict copying of our physical processes.

What we have done, in the case of the automobile, is to make use of wheels and
axles and the internal combustion engine to produce a transportation device
which owes nothing tothe study of human legs.

In the case of AI, he state that artificial intelligence should not be
assumed to be the equivalent of human intelligence and thus, the disection of
the human mind's functionality will not necessarily yield a solution to AI.

He closes with the following:
"And I suspect it [AI] will develop without reference to natural intelligence
and should so develop. And I am sure it will not replace human thinking any more than
the autombile replaces human walking."

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