RE: Hawking on AI dominance

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 08:12:19 MDT


J. R. Molloy wrote,
> If you're worried about computers taking over the world, you can
> relax - for
> now.
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134327121
> _gates08.htm
> l
> It will be at least a generation before computers can fool people into
> thinking the machines are human, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicted
> yesterday in his keynote speech at a conference of artificial-intelligence
> researchers in Seattle.

This is probably true for getting AI to work under Windows. I don't expect
getting AI to work under open source systems such as Linux to take as long.

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Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>



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