The word in AI I don't feel conformable with is Artificial, not
Intelligence. I use _Abstract_ Intelligence (also AI) as a replacement.
Have you ever heard of artificial aerodynamics (applicable to planes but
not to birds) or artificial thermodynamics (the same). I understand that
AI is the science of thinking machines and that, of course, applies to
biological ones. Aerodynamics was not developed by ornithologists and
neither will the theory of thinking machines be developed by any
frog-rippers. Electrical engineers laugh at a joke in which someone
pretends to have found The Physical Location Of The Notepad (all
capitalization is insufficient to reach the pompous statements
frog-rippers use to make) in the floppy disk. After a conclusive
experience placing electrodes on different parts of a computer, it has
been proved that the floppy disk unit triggers each time the application
Notepad is launched. Of course, the reason behind the floppy access is
the last file opened was "a:\readme.txt". All serious science is a part
of Mathematics ( if not, Mathematics will absorb it ;-) ) and so is the
science of thinking machines: AI.
Jacques.
PD. The only explanation I find to the "need" of the word artificial is
the (for me totally unexplainable) respect educated Anglo-Saxons have
for religion. This way, it looks compatible with religion, but of course
it isn't. The soul of a thinking machine is an anti-scientific notion no
matter what kind of thinking machine.
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