From: kym@sdf.lonestar.org   
      
   Aleks Jakulin <"a_jakulin@"@hotmail.com> wrote:   
   > You're using the terminology of logic. The original idea of AI has   
   > been to employ logic. 50 years later, we can see that this didn't   
   > work. There have already been grand space-like projects, such as the   
   > 5th generation computers in Japan: quite a failure. We don't know the   
   > fundamentals, you cannot "decompose" intelligence into ad-hoc bits   
      
   This is -- IMHO -- the crux of the "problem". Can an emergent property   
   of a complex system be re-created using reductionist approaches. ;-)   
      
   > such as "communication" "exploration" and "docking of components".   
   > Come on, we cannot even know how to build a robust operating system   
   > that won't collapse when you plug in an unknown device or a   
   > misbehaving piece of software: that's the getting-into-space   
   > challenge, AI can wait.   
      
   Maybe this is another part of the problem. Being unpredictable in   
   some degree is what AI and AL systems are  all about.   
   If some are trying to AVOID that, they may not be moving toward the goal. ;-)   
      
   > Please, don't encourage more people to go down these paths: with time   
   > people are beginning to forget the lessons that have already been   
   > learned, and another such cycle will only be a waste of thousands of   
   > students' and researchers' lifetimes.   
   [...]   
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