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From: dhutchin@netcom.com (Daniel Hutchings)
Subject: Re: Because of AI Programming is Obsolete!!!
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:55:31 GMT
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ptedesco@aol.com (PTedesco) writes:

>If we can capture both knowledge and process with AI then why should
>programming a computer be necessary?  Only new exceptions should require
>programming.  This means that the computer must work like the human brain
>and must be able to perform many tasks in parallel if that is what it
>takes.
	
My computer science professors have made this point on occasion.  Perhaps
programming as we know it will cease to exist.  This may not be a bad thing.
I imagine that in the future, "programming" will focus much more on solving
the tasks at hand then dealing with low level concerns.

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