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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The future of AI [was Re: Time Magazine -- Computers of the Future]
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Date: 19 Jun 88 05:26:59 GMT
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|I personally believe that we won't be able to truly create a machine replicate
|of ourselves simply because no entity can artificially create another entity of
|equal or greater complexity than itself.

But even if we accept this claim, if you consider society as a giant
organism, then it is more complex than any of its members so a joint
effort might work, right? Isn't that what the business of scientific
co-operation is trying to do anyway?

	Ken

PS: Yes I know the Americans are trying to keep secrets from the
Japanese who are trying to keep secrets from the Europeans who are
trying ...  But still a fair amount of information and tools flow.