Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!maddoxt
From: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <800@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 05:04:23 GMT
References: <1651@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox)
Organization: Nova Univ., (actually Evergreen State College)
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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?

	If one assumes that genes are machines, then the answer is
yes, we have an existence proof.