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From: David Yeo <dyeo@tortoise>
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On 15 May 1996, John D. Hourihane wrote:

> So perhaps the goal of designing an intelligent system retreats
> into the distance at the same rate at which we approach it - the
> more we understand the comlexity of the systems, the more we
> dismiss their acheivements.
> 

There is an old "joke" (of which there are many variations) - as soon as
you get a proposed model to work, it isn't AI anymore.  As jokes go it's
not very funny; but (sadly) it's all too often true. 

Cheers,

- David Yeo (Applied Cognitive Science, University of Toronto)
