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Subject: Re: It is AI when...
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 10:28:03 NZST
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avl0@cine88.cineca.it writes:

> In article <Stafford-101192104649@stafford.winona.msus.edu>, Stafford@Vax2.Wi
> > Another foolish attempt -
> > 
> > Complete AI is when a machine produces useful, unsolicited
> > solutions to unanticipated problems and we cannot discern 
> > it's methods.
> 
> Consider this attempt too:
> 
> Complete AI is when a machine produces the same behaviour and the
> same functionality of a human being and uses them to reach the same 
> Fundamental Goal.
> This definition can be a superset of your.
> 
> N.B. I believe that the main step in this way is the definition
> of the Fundamental Goal. Does anybody have any idea about that?
> 

I would venture to disagree with this. Why should AI be a copy of human 
I? Would we really expect an ET to have a human I, or some sort of 
alien I? The goal of artificial intelligence is not necessarily 
artificial human intelligence. As we don't have much intelligence 
around to build models on, much [particulary early] AI work was based 
on emulating humans, but it seems to me [I'm not well grounded ;-)] 
that this is less the case.

I'm very much looking forward to "dealing" with an artificial 
intelligence that is distinctly recognizable as "alien" or a "computer 
intelligence" while still being a near match, my match, or better.

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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