Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!isishq!doug
From: doug@isishq.UUCP (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The future of AI [was Re: Time Magazine -- Computers of the Future]
Message-ID: <2.224F2D16@isishq.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 04:41:29 GMT
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 UN> 
 UN>What do you think?  Thanks for your thoughts.  No, I'm not an 
 UN>AI trying 
 UN>to clone you. 
 UN> 
 
Hmmmm. I think intelligence is not nearly well enough understood for the 
process of artificializing to go anywhere. Most proponents of 
aritificial intelligence don't understand human intellignece. Most 
Computer scientists who do understand human human intelligence think AI 
is nonsense. Now I've presuming that *I* know what I mean when I say 
"understand". But so far those who say our minds are too complex to 
mechanize have been proven right, and those who say "our minds are 
really simple" have yet to suceed in meaningful mechanization of them. 
 
You can't act like a human being unless you think you are a human being 
and are treated like a human being and act like a human being. It goes 
in circles. But so far our machines do not resemble human beings much at 
all.  
 
 
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