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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: The future of AI
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Date: 10 Jun 88 13:24:54 GMT
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If we do accomplish the basics to build androids I wonder if companies
will employ "psycho-artists" to design interesting personalities for
them? Will it become a home hobby? (No, that's not right, he still
seems peevish not cute, wipe out the empath eproms and we'll try again
tomorrow...) Imagine what it could do for the entertainment industry!

I agree with Ken, it might be very hard if not impossible to separate
human foibles from human strengths in the end, they might be one and
the same. Highly complex AI will almost certainly require a lot of
self-organization (learning.) Of course, androids will be slaves we
won't mind horse-whipping, of course...?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University