Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!saturn!evan From: evan@saturn.ucsc.edu (Evan Schaffer) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: The future of AI Message-ID: <3965@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 29 Jun 88 03:35:35 GMT References: <48.22A3B84F@isishq.UUCP> <4347@killer.UUCP> <10425@stb.UUCP> Reply-To: wolf@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Evan Schaffer) Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 15 In article <10425@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes: >Actually, I have a bigger stumbling block to propose: Turing machines can do >anything a major computer can do. There are a countable number of turing >machines, but an uncountable number of problems. Therefore, any computer >will be limited in what it can do. Actually, there are an infinite number of turning machines. Turing machines may have an infinite number of states. In fact, one can argue that, given the size of a neuron, and the size of a human head, there are a limited number of neurons that will fit in a human's head, so a turing machine is capable of more complex behavior then a human. Michael Wolf ARPA: wolf@ssyx.ucsc.edu UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!wolf