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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <1666@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 31 Oct 88 16:59:19 GMT
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Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks)
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?
>

What does intelligent mean?  We can build machines that know
more than we do about certain subjects, and that do many things
better than we do.  But really, all we have to do is build a machine
that can learn or increase in intelligence, and it may then
outstrip us in time, or build other machines that will.