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From: morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 20 Nov 88 18:04:53 GMT
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In article <4264@homxc.UUCP> marty@homxc.UUCP (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
> ...  Do we know what ``artificial intelligence'' is?  Or are we just talking
> about something we don't know anything about? ...  Just somebody
>tell us what the answer is.

The answer is "who cares?" Does anyone in this group actually _do_ AI? I'm 
beginning to think that the most appropriate definition of AI is "a discipline
concerned with the uninformed examination of unresolvable philosophical
and psychological issues."