Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boris From: boris@hawaii.mit.edu (Boris N Goldowsky) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The future of AI - my opinion Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 88 18:13:10 GMT References: <8803270154.AA08607@bu-cs.bu.edu> <962@daisy.UUCP> <4640@bcsaic.UUCP> <2979@sfsup.UUCP> <28619@aero.ARPA> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 24 In-reply-to: srt@aero.ARPA's message of 7 Apr 88 18:35:41 GMT In article <28619@aero.ARPA> srt@aero.ARPA (Scott R. Turner) writes: 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 This may be true, but at the same time the notion that a machine could never think is slowly being eroded away. Perhaps by the time such a "Turing Machine"* could be built, "just a machine" will no longer imply non-intelligence, because they'll be too many semiinteligent machines around. But I think it is a good point that every time we do begin to understand some subdomain of intelligence, it becomes clear that there is much more left to be understood... ->Boris G. (*sorry.) -- Boris Goldowsky boris@athena.mit.edu or @adam.pika.mit.edu %athena@eddie.UUCP @69 Chestnut St.Cambridge.MA.02139 @6983.492.(617)