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From: brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The future of AI [was Re: Time Magazine -- Computers of the Future]
Message-ID: <1226@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 88 07:46:11 GMT
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Organization: UCSF Dept. of Lab Med
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Keywords: AI, Turing test, giraffes
Summary: Hofsteader does AI passing the Turing test.

Douglas Hofsteader says in Godel, Escher, Bach that we are probably 
too dumb to understand ourselves at level to make an intelligence 
comparable to our own.  He uses the analogy of giraffes which just
don't have the bio-hardware to contemplate their own exisitance. 

We too may just not have the bio-hardware to organize a true
intelligence.  Now there are many significant things to be done short
of this goal.  The real question for AI is, "Can there really be an
alternative paradigm to the Turing test which will guide and inspire
the field in significant areas?"

Well...thats my $0.02


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