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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Sentient Beings
Summary: I wonder if the Russians will beat us all at this one, too.
Keywords: Artificial Life, Artificial Creatures, Androids
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Date: 11 Dec 89 20:11:03 GMT
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In article <1736@aipna.ed.ac.uk> cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:

 > In article <81715@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort) writes:

 > > I would like to see the construction of an Artificial Sentient Being
 > > by the end of the Millenium (just 11 years away).  The question is
 > > whether SAIL, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, or the Japanese labs will get
 > > there first.

 > Sentient?  If by sentience you mean to imply conscious awareness I think
 > we've probably left it too late to get there by the EOM :-)  But if
 > looking like a fish, quacking like a fish, etc., is good enough for you,
 > then some Scottish labs are in this game too, such as Edinburgh, and the
 > Turing Institute (Glasgow).  Nor should you forget the Brady gang in
 > Oxford.

If the Brits or the Scots can get there first, more power to 'em!

--Barry Kort