On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Franklin Wayne Poley wrote:
> >
> > And what will it accomplish in terms which laymen can understand, the way
> > we understand a computer playing chess better than a human or doing
> > arithmetic better than a human?
>
> You need to read http://singinst.org/intro.html, stat.
I did. I still think that if you want broad public support you have to set
out some objectives for the near future which we can all relate to. In our
language. For example, everyone can relate to the notion of a machine
which could read text at all levels from grade one to whatever, and after
that answer questions. What would it take to create such a machine?
FWP
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