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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Limitation of AI
Message-ID: <1992Feb24.221945.27512@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 92 22:19:45 GMT
References: <54884@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
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In article <54884@cup.portal.com> afr@cup.portal.com (Alex Leonid Freedland) writes:
>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?

  The third paragraph represents my thoughts almost exactly.  Although,
I am more interested in how far from science this "scientific" endeavor
has moved.

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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