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From: uj797@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: AI hype (Re: standardization)
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In previous articles now reformatted, Finch and McDermott say:

: Drew McDermott wrote:
: > 
: > So the question is: How should a research community react when
: > they get too much absurd publicity?  For example, should we be
: > circulating a petition right now pointing out that all the hoopla
: > about "intelligent agents" is based on anthropomorphic fantasy?
: > 
: >                                         -- Drew McDermott

: Come on.  With names for fields like "Artificial *Intelligence*",
: and "*Intelligent* Agents", how can the community put the blame
: on those outside the field who take these words at face value?
: Academics are supposed to show Intellectual Integrity, after all,
: aren't we?  (Hey, perhaps that's where the missing 'I's are!)

: - Steve.

Excessive hype of the human endeavor of AI is not possible.  Full
warning must be given to the bodies politic of this world that we
are playing not with mundane fire but with the threat of altering
"TO PAN" -- "THE ALL" as expressed by ancient Greek philosophers.

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Pictorial Meme of a Machine Mind  /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
|   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    ______  |  |
|  /image  \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /      \ |  |
| / percept \<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ stored \|  |
| \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ words  /   |
|  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \______/    |

http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ original public-domain archive or
http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/science.html Web site in Poland.
