Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2654 talk.philosophy.misc:1586 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!gilbert From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Message-ID: <1908@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 18 Nov 88 09:35:56 GMT References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <1654@hp-sdd.HP.COM> Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 19 In article <1654@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.hp.com.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes: >But is the creation of intelligence an unsolvable problem? >Nah, people make babies all the time. Babies are pretty dumb. Left to themselves, their MTBF is about a day, and then you don't get another chance to measure it. Intelligence arises through socialisation. No-one can guarantee to give any child a given level of 'intelligence' by the age of 18, although the bases of educational attainment are fairly well understood. Leave a child to themself and they will develop little of what non-AI types call intelligence (although they will pick up the blue block). This is a fact, as a few very miserable individuals have had the misfortune to prove. -- Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science, The University, Glasgow gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs !ukc!glasgow!gilbert