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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <1657@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 88 12:54:56 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Sean McLinden)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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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?

This is the kind of topic which could flood this newsgroups for weeks and
probably belongs in a philosophy. How do you measure intelligence? Memory?
Surely it can be done. Logical operations per unit time? Again, there is
no reason why not. Number of simultaneous active process? Why not?

We can build machines that are stronger, faster, more reliable, and more
durable than ourselves, why not more intelligent?

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory