Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hi-csc!harper
From: harper@hi-csc.UUCP (Paul L. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: faith and AI
Message-ID: <4040a289.9d8d@hi-csc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 15:57:00 GMT
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Organization: Honeywell CSDD, Golden Valley, MN
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I am continually amazed at the faith of AI "researchers"
(programmers?). I have seen nothing whatsoever from the AI
community that indicates there is any hope of producing
intelligence by running instructions on computers. 

It is an incredible leap of faith, completely unfounded 
by science, to assume that computers can obtain the human
quality we call intelligence. Where is the scientific justification
for the assumption?