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From: marty@homxc.UUCP (M.B.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: So what was the outcome?
Message-ID: <4264@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 17:35:59 GMT
References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <88Nov15.170837est.707@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <17847@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <17847@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>, jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU
(John B. Nagle) writes:
> 
>       We already had this discussion this year.  We had it at least
> twice last year.  So can it.

Interesting comment.  The title of the newsgroup is an abbreviation for
``artificial intelligence.''  Its subject is ``artificial
intelligence.''  The discussion is about what it means when you
juxtapose the two words ``artificial'' and ``intelligence.''  The poor
sap who started it wanted to know whether he had the right definition
of intelligence.  Did he?

If we had the same discussion already this year, and twice last year,
did we settle it?  What was the outcome?  Do we know what ``artificial
intelligence'' is?  Or are we just talking about something we don't
know anything about?

I am ready to allow that ``artificial intelligence'' could be a word
all by itself, which does not derive its meaning from the two separate
words ``artificial'' and ``intelligence.''  But I certainly don't want
to reopen a discussion that has already been settled.  Just somebody
tell us what the answer is.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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