I just wanted to make a short interjection in this discussion. There is a book named "Computers and Common Sense" published in about 1961, which is one of those Lighthill-report type AI-is-impossible books. It makes for some fun reading as the author (with the fitting name"Mortimer Taube" I think) takes on the impossibility of machine translation (ie., language) and other intractable problems some of which have been more or less solved. I recollect a long discussion about a "photostat" machine (copy machine), and wouldn't it be easier to develop this than a machine translator.
Anyway, one thing he did say in the book which I had written down was that "learning the rules of chess is not the same as learning chess" which made perfect sense to me. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
