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Article 5545 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI Failures
Message-ID: <1992May11.213813.8015@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 11 May 92 09:38:13 GMT
References: <1992May1.193141.24350@psych.toronto.edu> <zlsiida.144@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1992May6.163335.8117@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <1992May10.033949.7271@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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In article <1992May10.033949.7271@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, 
zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:
> Killing a computer is not the same thing as unplugging it!
> 
Today this is true. But today we do not have truly intelligent computers.
None of our present day maachines can "die" in any normal sense of the
word. If/When we do manage to create AIs they may die just as dead when we
pull the plug as when the plug is pulled on a human needing life-support.

Assume nothing.
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