From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 22:40:27 MST
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/25/00 11:59:07 AM Central Standard Time, hal@finney.org
> writes:
>
> > And there is a good chance that most of the skills we humans associate
> > with intelligence, like designing ICs or diagnosing illness, are actually
> > easier to do than the things we think are trivial, like walking and
> > picking up trashcans and emptying them out.
>
> And possibly driving a truck?
>
> EvMick
Considering that they now have a toy puppy robot that walks quite well,
as well as some man size robots that do so with some agility, I don't
see how this can be considered a real assertion. That they are
definitely things that require much more fuzzy logic (a relatively new
science) is acknowledged, while designing ICs and diagnosing illnesses
merely requires the ability to sift through the accumulated
mathematical/logical/experimental knowledge that has been accumulated
for a couple hundred years and use pure logic.
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