From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 09:09:38 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> << *Story location:*
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58714,00.html
>
> 02:00 AM May. 13, 2003 PT
>
> Will we ever make machines that are as smart as ourselves?
>
> "AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky
> <http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Eminsky> in a recent speech at Boston
> University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence
> Laboratory <http://www.ai.mit.edu/> in 1959 with John McCarthy.
>
> Such notions as "water is wet" and "fire is hot" have proved elusive
> quarry for AI researchers. Minsky accused researchers of giving up on
> the immense challenge of building a fully autonomous, thinking machine.
...
Water is wet and fire is hot require sensors that measure those
characteristics. Then the definition is trivial. Human bodies come
equiped with those sensors. Most AIs don't. So the AIs can't "figure
it out", because it isn't a task in figuring, but rather in sensing.
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