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Skeptical of Ai Skepticism
Artificial Intelligences In Operation Today
I must object to the article title "The Futile Quest for Artificial Intelligence." A very reasonable definition of intelligence is "a system to handle all of the calculations from crude inputs through to overt actions in an adaptive way so as to maximize some measure of performance over time" (PJ. Werbos, IEEE Trans. "Systems, Man, and Cybernetics," 1987, pg 7.). A number of researchers, including myself, have such artificial intelligences in operation today, doing a variety of useful tasks, some faster and better than humans are capable of. (But of course one can have an artificial intelligence without cl...See the full content of this document
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