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