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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Elementary AI Philosophy
Summary: Drawing pictures of my intellectual scenery.
Keywords: Understanding and Comprehension, Reality and Modeling, Sentience
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Date: 7 Feb 89 00:25:41 GMT
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In article <654@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (Daniel Mocsny) writes:

 > Computers lack the fantastic wetware that lets us (sort of) cut
 > through semantic noise. Thus computers will force us to write more
 > clearly, and we will benefit. Like the child who could not see the
 > Emperor's new clothes, our computers will tell us when we are
 > ambiguous, when we add nonessential words, when our sentence structure
 > is too complex, and how to better say what we are really trying to
 > say.

Well, Dan, I've been using WWB (Writer's WorkBench) ever since the first
version came out of Murray Hill, and at least some of your vision is
already a reality.

But I have also noticed that even my best writing often fails to reach
my audience.  So I have turned to other means of communication.  I
now explain my ideas (in excruciating detail) to my computer, and
have it draw pictures of the image in my mind's eye.  I then let
people watch the color cartoons, which they seem to enjoy very much.
I notice that I can communicate ideas more effectively with computer
animation than with text.  (They also like the funny sound effects.)

--Barry Kort