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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 01/23/2014 06:17 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Michael F. Stemper   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 01/23/2014 02:35 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >>> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:240120140903107097%YourName@YourISP.com...   
   >>>> In article , David   
   >>>> Friedman  wrote:   
      
   >>>>> You might as well argue that human driven cars aren't going to happen   
   >>>>> any time soon. They too rely on a combination of information sources,   
   >>>>> one of which is often the GPS.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Human drivers (hopefully) also use intelligence, common sens, and an   
   >>>> ability to make decisions for themselves ...three things a computer   
   >>>> simply cannot currently have, no matter how complicated the programming   
   >>>> is.   
   >>>   
   >>> In fact a number of computer systems do have that capability.   
   >>   
   >> There are computer systems with common sense? Fascinating.   
   >   
   > "Fasinating" ... more like astounding since most humans don't even have   
   > any.  ;-)   
      
      
      
   > There was an article in the newspaper not long ago about the experts   
   > working with robots etc. saying that getting to a point of having   
   > actual computer intelligence is stil decades away.   
      
   It always has been. Kind of like fusion.   
      
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