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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI as the Next Stage in Evolution
Message-ID: <1991Nov28.132455.20053@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 91 13:24:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: mp.1991Nov28.132455.20053
References: <YAMAUCHI.91Nov27024148@indigo.cs.rochester.edu> <426@htsa.htsa.aha.nl>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <426@htsa.htsa.aha.nl> peterka@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Peter Kaptein) writes:
>In article <YAMAUCHI.91Nov27024148@indigo.cs.rochester.edu> yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
>What do you think of the idea of intelligent machines as the next
>stage in evolution?  It seems that if we ever succeed in building
>machines with human-level intelligence, it will only be a matter of
>time before their capabilities exceed those of humans -- in speed,
>accuracy, and memory capacity at least, and possibly in other ways."

#ifdef HUMOR_ALLOWED

  I just constructed an intelligent machine modelled on the principles
behind human intelligence, but with a hundred-fold increase in power.

  The damn thing is totally incoherent.  It acts as if it is a total
ignoramus, and keeps calling for its mommy.

#endif

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


