XPost: comp.ai.philosophy   
   From: David@longley.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Eray   
   Ozkural  exa  writes   
   >bullmordt@yahoo.co.nz (G.K. Konnig) wrote in message   
   >news:<3ff97a0d.0409130315.12cc07aa@posting.google.com>...   
   >> This is a shame, computers and robots are still dumber than blowflies.   
   >>   
   >> Where are the terminators and HALs ?   
   >   
   >I'm working on a kitchen robot called T 1. You'll have to wait for a   
   >few decades before I get to T 100, in the meanwhile my robot can cut   
   >off your finger, but I'm not sure if you want to be wounded or killed   
   >by a robot.   
   >   
   >> I need a robot to mow my lawn, but no robot can do it.   
   >   
   >Maybe you can pay children in the neighborhood some money to have it   
   >mowed. ;) It might cost less in the long run. You wouldn't want a   
   >conscious philosophizing robot to mow the lawn anyway, he might plan   
   >to take over the world a few hours later. Mowing is *really* boring.   
   >   
   >Alternatively, ask the behaviorists here if they can apply Google's   
   >Pigeon technology to achieve similar results.   
   >   
   >Cheers,   
   >   
   >--   
   >Eray Ozkural   
      
   Disregarding the silly last paragraph, it's remarkable that few of you   
   ever *ask*. Instead, you just presume that you already know, and   
   whenever you do get a glimmer of awareness of just how absurdly at odds   
   with empirical reality your naive folk psychological assumptions and   
   assertions actually are, you merely resort to abuse and snide remarks.   
   Not exactly the sort of behaviour one would expect from engineers or   
   scientists.   
      
   The serious point to be drawn is that most of you just don't draw the   
   appropriate conclusions and end up *questioning* your fundamental   
   assumptions. The actual state of "AI" doesn't stop you in your tracks,   
   nor does its limits at even the simplest levels of simulation give any   
   of you "enthusiasts" pause for self-critical thought.   
   --   
   David Longley   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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