I guess we need all the help we can get..

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9/19/01 11:41:14 PM

I guess we need all the help we can get..

I've been around such folk for lengthy periods, too. Really handy to take certain problems to - with caution. In '64 (that's when we got the first PDP-8s IIRC) it's understandable that one would try to fly before crawling was a done deal.

What I can never quite get though, is how considerably ept techno- folk can sail off into 'AI' with such assurances (as we've been hearing regularly since about that time) before noticing what is known? suspected about: that which they believe they are about to emulate (!) as,

[link|http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/bk8/bk8ch2.htm|How Brains Think]

(Next chapter is on 'consciousness', with suitably humble disclaimers !!)

I am sure he knows much more lore than I ever will, but he seems massively ignorant of umm, what's Different about a homo-sap! vs - anything he could build.

A.

AI: The problem is simple: people just aren't very smart. - (brettj) - (8) - Sept. 2, 2001, 10:35:20 AM EDT

Re: AI: ....: people just aren't very smart. - (gtall) - Sept. 3, 2001, 11:44:35 AM EDT

Poor guy.. I *guess* it's a guy thing, anyway (?) - (Ashton) - (2) - Sept. 3, 2001, 04:46:07 PM EDT

I think of him as a Don Quihote. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Sept. 19, 2001, 11:16:43 PM EDT

I guess we need all the help we can get.. - (Ashton) - Sept. 19, 2001, 11:41:14 PM EDT

Some People Aren't Very Smart -- People Using YOUR Software - (gdaustin) - (3) - Sept. 3, 2001, 10:16:22 PM EDT

Also -- a lot of issues can't be decided by intelligence - (tonytib) - Sept. 3, 2001, 10:58:40 PM EDT

Who wants to b smart?You can't be President if you're smart. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Sept. 6, 2001, 03:41:22 PM EDT

Presidential smarts overrated - (wharris2) - Sept. 7, 2001, 12:35:38 AM EDT

If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.
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