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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Limitation of AI
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Date: 25 Feb 92 15:46:10 GMT
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In article <54884@cup.portal.com> afr@cup.portal.com (Alex Leonid Freedland) writes:
>Let us remember the Godel's Incompleteness theorem.

Yes, what about it?

> 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.

Compare that to the blind force of evolution in nature, that has produced
our intelligence, without knowing anything about neither intelligence nor
anything else, or what it was trying to achieve.

Perhaps understanding is not entirely necessary, especially not already at
the outset. I suppose it does help, though, especially as long as we use our
usual goal-directed approaches of developing new solutions. But it does give
some food for thought, and there is, for instance, the possibility that one
might learn what one wants to achieve along the way, rather than knowing it
from the outset.

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