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It's primitive; it's dumb (Oh. NEVER MIND!)

Richard Owlett rowlett at atlascomm.net
Wed Jul 7 11:41:07 EST 1999


What is "AI"?
What is "I" ??
Some of the Mentiflex posts remind me of Noam Chomsky's (spelling??)
"Transformational Grammar" (Which I last read ~1970). If it generates
sentences by those rules, is it "AI"?

"Bruce R. McFarling" wrote:

> On one point I agree: can we get this back into a single thread?
>
> I don't much care wether the Mentifex project is artificial human
> intelligence, artificial cockroach intelligence (and teaching a
> cockroach to talk would be a bit of a neat trick, if you think about
> it), or just plain artificial intelligence in the sense of most
> shiiping AI systems, which is to say Simulated Intelligence.
>
> Those are all questions or not for the AI newsgroup(s).  It seems to
> be Forth.  I've never complained about it because I've never looked at
> the source, so I've never had any notion about whether the Forth
> programming was nice or crufty.
>
> Astro(logy/nomy)
> Ecosystems research
> Intelligence (artificial or fake or whatever)
> Obsolete computers
> Unifying standards (and resulting divisions over same)
>
> and sometimes Yet Another Reinvented Wheel
>
> as long as its Forth.




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