Intelligent Agents......

[Alex Rice]

On Feb 13, 2004, at 8:01 AM, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02082004/business/136566.asp
>
> food for RunRev thoughts....

Interesting!

Kind of surprising a lot of the claims that are being made in there. I 
believe however, that particular kind of AI is fundamentally limited: 
Humans have awareness and understanding as a consequence of our 
embodied physical existence. At the lowest level, all our concepts and 
metaphors are understood in terms of the physical embodiment of our 
bodies. Therefore to create a comparable artificial brain, first a 
comparable artificial body would have to be created. Bots like 
Terminator, "Data", C3PO and R2D2 are not foreseeable. See the books 
_The Embodied Mind_ and _Women Fire and Dangerous Things_ for the 
scientific proofs that our awareness and understanding directly arise 
from physical embodiment and our (uniquely) human interaction with the 
environment.

OTO if that article is not stretching the truth then maybe there are 
Terminator Bots already created, ready to break out of some US Army 
facility somewhere, then maybe I will buy a Sidearm HERF Gun instead of 
a new Mac G5 ;-) <http://liun.hektik.org/hightech/herf/herf.html>

Some of you know already that I wrote a CLIPS external for runrev. 
CLIPS can be very useful for creating domain-specific expert systems or 
Rule-based "AI" as opposed to kind of connectionist-evolutionary AI 
like that article discusses.
   <http://mindlube.com/developer/revclips/>

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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com