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From: lammens@sunybcs.uucp (Johan Lammens)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Summary: no infinite intelligence
Keywords: Intelligence
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Date: 3 Nov 88 15:17:30 GMT
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In article <3802@cs.utexas.edu> berleant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Berleant) writes:
>If we can create a machine more intelligent than we, there is
>real science fiction in pursuing the implications -- it means
>we can then create a machine of infinite intelligence! Think
>about it...
>
>Dan Berleant

No we can't. At least, this inductive reasoning does not hold (which
does not mean the conclusion is invalid): by the same reasoning one
could "prove" that we can build machines of infinite strength,
precision, size, whatever.
JL.