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From: mt@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael Travers)
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Subject: Re: navigation and symbol manipulation
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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 88 23:59 EDT
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: navigation and symbol manipulation
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In-Reply-To: The message of 23 Aug 88 02:05 EDT from John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>

    Date: 23 Aug 88 06:05:43 GMT
    From: jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle)

				   It's depressing to think that it might take
    a century to work up to a human-level AI from the bottom.  Ants by 2000,
    mice by 2020 doesn't sound like an unrealistic schedule for the medium term,
    and it gives an idea of what might be a realistic rate of progress.

Well, we're a little ahead of schedule.  I'm working on agent-based
systems for programming animal behavior, and ants are my main test case.
They're pretty convincing, and have been blessed by real ant
ethologists.  But I won't make any predictions as to how long it will
take to extend this methodology to mice or humans.