Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: The difference between machine and human intelligence (was: AI and Intelligence)
Message-ID: <401@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 21:16:04 GMT
References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <4216@homxc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <4216@homxc.UUCP> marty@homxc.UUCP (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
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>Any definition of ``artificial intelligence'' must allow intelligence
>to be characteristically human, but not exclusively so.

     A very good point (IMHO).  I believe that artificial intelligence
is possible, but that machine intelligence will probably *NOT*
resemble human intelligence all that closely.  My main reason for this
is that unless you duplicate much of what a human is (i.e. the neural
structure, all of the senses, etc.), you will not get the same result.
I propose that a machine without human-like senses cannot "understand"
many ideas and imagery the way a human does, simply because it will
not be able to perceive its surroundings in the same way as a human.
Any comments?

					.oO Chris Oo.-- 
Christopher Lishka                 ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
Immunology Section  (608)262-1617                            lishka@uwslh.uucp

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