From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!cutler
Newsgroups: net.ai
Title: Re: The Mind's I
Article-I.D.: yale-com.715
Posted: Sat Jan 22 21:28:09 1983
Received: Mon Jan 24 04:41:34 1983

A few points about the view I recently stated:

	1) I'm not expressing a philosophical statement on AI
	   or anything that comes from AI.  If a program acts
	   human and is as (un)predictable as a human, then
	   for all practical purposes I would treat it as though
	   it understands human behavior and associated functions.
	   From this point of view it is irrelevant whether or not
	   the program actually does understand or just mimics
	   understanding.
	2) Will an AI intelligence necessarily be human? No,
	   but to paraphrase a leader in the field, we know
	   humans can achieve a high level of intelligence, but
	   we don't know for certain that there is any other form
	   of highly intelligent "life", so at least for now we
	   should use the only available model.  This expresses
	   two goals which I share: to create an artificial intelligence
	   and to figure out how people work.

						Ben Cutler
						decvax!yale-comix!cutler