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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like simulating flying
Message-ID: <2003@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Feb 90 17:13:01 GMT
References: <6557@cps3xx.UUCP> <1360@oravax.UUCP>
Reply-To: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK.
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In article <1360@oravax.UUCP> ian@oravax.odyssey.UUCP (Ian Sutherland) writes:

>It is my impression that many people in AI want to figure out
>what intelligent behavior is in complete generality before they build
>the "black boxes that work".  I personally think this is the wrong
>approach.

Where d'you get this impression from? Can't think of any such people
among the hundred or so AI people here. Hands up those AI researchers
who've been giving this impression!

Actually, I think I know where you get this impression from: it comes
from reading books and articles about AI written by people who know very
little about either AI or computers. There's a lot of it about. Terribly
unscientific. I blame the "education" system.

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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK