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>From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
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Subject: Re: It is AI when...
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Date: 14 Nov 92 13:00:13 GMT
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clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:

> Date: 12 Nov 92 20:22:05 GMT
> Organization: University of Central Florida
    ....
> If you can discern how it works it's not truly intelligent behavior.
> You'll know its truly intelligent when you can't figure out how it
> works.


This implies that
EITHER

    (a) human beings, chimpanzees, squirrels (and other things) are
    not truly intelligent

OR
    (b) we'll never understand how they work

I see no reason to believe either, though understanding how they
work is very difficult and is likely to take many more years. I see
current AI/Cognitive science as being at a stage that could be
compared with Galileo's understanding of physics: i.e. some
important new ideas have emerged, but there`s still a very long way
to go.

Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
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