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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Sci. American AI debate: No Contest
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Date: 9 Jan 90 18:07:13 GMT
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Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <16603@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> mike@cs.arizona.edu (Mike Coffin) writes:
>Moreover, I (at least) am not arguing that symbol pushing can produce
>intelligence.  I merely argue that Searle has not proven that it
>can't.  This is very different. (My own view is that we don't know
>enough about intelligence to have the slightest idea what might be
>necessary to create it.)

I agree.  I think it's at least very difficult to decide this question
now, when we've never seen a program that can pass the Turing Test and
have no idea what it would look like or how it would work or even if
it's possible to have one at all.