From: Xiaoguang Li (xli03@emory.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 12 1999 - 18:40:30 MST
in my opinion, the motive to create ai isn't really the driving
force behind ai. what i see is a civilization sufficiently advanced to
begin the automation of useful tasks. as such, each step along the way
gives immediate economic payoffs, which drives the creation of machines
that _behave_ intelligently. the functionalist extrapolation that these
machines, when behaving sufficiently intelligently, will also become
sentient, is really a kind of accident. my guess is that any sufficiently
advanced civilization will almost necessarily develop an intelligence
greater than itself.
-xgl
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