From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 21:17:51 MDT
Harvey Newstrom did write,
> All that talk about neural nets were future possibilities where this
> database could be fed to a neural net to see what happens. GAC does not
> currently have a neural net. It has a database.
In that case, it's no more sophisticated than Lenat's Cyc
http://www.cyc.com/overview.html which also indulges AI pretensions.
> GAC seems to be only to answer questions
> with pre-recorded answers. It is more like a tape-recorder or a floppy
> diskette. If you record data on it, there it is. That's data retrieval.
> It's not even data processing.
Haven't we all known people just like that. They merely regurgitate
information that they've committed to memory. That's parroting knowledge. It's
not even thinking.
(But they can still be friendly.)
τΏτ
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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