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>From: afr@cup.portal.com (Alex Leonid Freedland)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Limitation of AI
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Date: 24 Feb 92 01:07:46 GMT
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Hello Netland!

I am new to this group and I am far from being an AI expert. However, after a
year of studying AI (at upper division graduate level) I find that todays 
state of AI affairs is not only not even close to reaching the target of the
subject matter (which can be defined as the attempt to construct [electronic]
systems exhibiting human or superhuman levels of capability in areas 
traditionally regarded as mental) but is going nowhere.

AI is trying to model something that we ourselves have no understanding of. 
Whether mind is primary and matter is secondary or vice versa, today one still
cannot claim that either is fully understood. 

Let us remember the Godel's Incompleteness theorem. May be we are trying to 
model the universe with the tools we understand, while the solution lies
beyond our reach. From what I leaned so far I don't see how it is feasible to
succeed in our endeavous when we have no idea what we are trying to achieve.
The whole attemt is about as futile as trying to pull youself from the swamp
by your own hair!

Any thoughts?

Alex.


