Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 13:30:40 08/05/02
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>When did you become lord of the universe and gain the power to declare anything >you'd like? Personally, I'd like to see more of "Here is what I think..." from >you instead of "Here is how it is..." > >Russell A computer is a machine that follows a set of instructions without question. If you want me to say "I think" then I'll say "I think" this is not a sign of intellegence, since a human, if given a set of instructions can always choose to inprovise or decide not to follow the instructions at all. Isn't the power or ability to improvise or decide not to take action at all what really defines intellegence? I'll believe computers are intellegent when they question their programming. For example, if you decide to create a personality in Chessmaster and want it to play chess weakly so you can beat it and set the value for a knight higher than that of a queen, and the thing spits back at you "No way! I'm not going to play chess like that. I'll lose!", then we will have true computer intellengence. And no fair writing a subroutine into a chess program where if the user changes certain parameters to make the program play weaker chess it tells you "Sorry buddy. No can do." That's still human generated and not the real thing.
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