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From: cme@cloud9.UUCP (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Summary: my son, the doctor
Keywords: Intelligence
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Date: 29 Oct 88 21:39:01 GMT
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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?


To me, that depends on whether we can produce something which REALLY learns.
If so, then the statement is invalidated empirically -- by any
illiterate coal miner's son who gets a PhD.


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