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From: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <4167@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 88 01:30:18 GMT
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Reply-To: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <1651@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncthangi@ndsuvax.UUCP (sam r. thangiah ) writes:
>One of the students in my class raised a point that:
>"Man is not capable of producing a machine that is more intelligent than
>oneself".  Is this a valid statement?
>
>I really do not know if this has been debated, but it does tell us the limits
>of achievements that can be attained by AI or does it ?

I'm not sure if there have been any public debates on this question, but I
think there are some easy (not necessarily correct, though) answers.  My gut
reaction is that this question is identical to the question of whether or not
AI is possible.  Since we know that machines can do things people can't, and
since we know that people can use these machines to allow themselves to do
things they ordinarily wouldn't be able to do, then if we could just replace
the people with AI engines, we would have machines that could do more things
than their designers.  In my judgement, these things would constitute added
intelligence.

                                                 -Dan