Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ndsuvax!nebezene From: nebezene@ndsuvax.UUCP (Todd Michael Bezenek) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Knowledge Gap? More like Fear gap Message-ID: <593@ndsuvax.UUCP> Date: 21 Dec 87 22:42:44 GMT References: <8712161659.AA25561@bu-cs.bu.edu> Reply-To: nebezene@ndsuvax.UUCP (Todd Michael Bezenek) Organization: North Dakota State University Fargo, ND Lines: 23 In article <8712161659.AA25561@bu-cs.bu.edu> "OAK::BASICSTUD" writes: > An interesting example is a discussion some BBS users had locally, about AI. >The question was whether or not an AI could have a soul. But most everyone >(except those fairly experienced in programming) seemed to think that an >AI could never be any more than a machine, and thus couldn't even be called >intelligent. I should think that the opposite would be the case here. I have found that people who do not have any experience with artificial intelligence programming techniques (This should be interpreted as "anything that has been used in AI".) are generally more willing to believe in the possiblity of a computer consciousness. What does this say about the knowledge gap? -- Todd M. Bezenek --=---+---=-- \___ Student of Electrical and ---=---+-I-=--- Electronics Engineering |\ ---=----+----=--- Bitnet: nebezene@ndsuvax | UUCP: uunet!ndsuvax!nebezene ^ Amateur Radio Station KO0N