From: The Baileys (nanotech@cwix.com)
Date: Sat Mar 13 1999 - 13:49:47 MST
Neil Blanchard wrote:
>I'm wondering if the new books by Kurzweil, Moravec and Gershenfeld have
>sparked more interest in the ability of machines to think in the
>academic communities. I know the books are primarily geared toward the
>layperson but I'm hoping this will make the academia think more this as
>a legitimate topic of research and inquiry.
Douglas Hofstadter is organizing a roundtable discussion at Indiana
University related to the limits (or lack thereof) of machine intelligence.
The objective of the roundtable is to elicit a discourse among various
academic disciplines on the potential of artificial intelligence and its
impact on human society. I am not certain if Hofstadter's effort is in
response to any of the recent popular books on the subject. I've been
promised a copy of the proceedings but I doubt there will be much in the
way of new thinking or breakthrough viewpoints on the topic of artificial
intelligence. However, I am interested in looking for what I call "efficacy
creep", the often slow process of academia deeming a subject respectable
enough to discuss in the coffeehouses.
Doug Bailey
doug.bailey@ey.com
nanotech@cwix.com
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