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From: srt@aero.ARPA (Scott R. Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The future of AI - my opinion
Message-ID: <28619@aero.ARPA>
Date: 7 Apr 88 18:35:41 GMT
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Reply-To: srt@aero.UUCP (Scott R. Turner)
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I think the important point is that as soon as AI figures something out,
it is not only no longer considered to be AI, it is also no longer considered
to be intelligence.

Expert systems is a good example.  The early theory was, let's try and
build programs like experts, and that will give us some idea of why
those experts are intelligent.   Now a days, people say "expert
systems - oh, that's just rule application."  There's some truth to
that viewpoint - I don't think expert systems has a lot to say about
intelligence - but it's a bad trap to fall into.  

Eventually we'll build a computer that can pass the Turing Test and
people will still be saying "That's not intelligence, that's just a
machine."
						-- Scott Turner