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From: jinli@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Jin Li)
Date: Sat, 29-Oct-88 13:52:15 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Oct29.135215.12051@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
References: <1651@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jinli@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Jin Li)
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Keywords: Intelligence

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?
>...

It depends on one's belief.  Technically, I don't think any machine can be
more intelligent than human.  Please think of the following analogy:

	If you believe that God created human, how could human be
	more superior than God?

BTW, I am not a Catholic!

I think we should focus our attention on how to use AI to help us, but not
waste time trying to build a machine(eg. HAL) that is more intelligent than us.

Can HAL pass first year Psychology at university?
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