"NGSTL1::DANNY%ti-eg.CSNET"@RELAY.CS.NET (From the desk of Daniel Paul) (10/22/86)
In the last AI digest (V4 #226), Daniel Simon writes: >One question you haven't addressed is the relationship between intelligence and >"human performance". Are the two synonymous? If so, why bother to make >artificial humans when making natural ones is so much easier (not to mention >more fun)? This is a question that has been bothering me for a while. When it is so much cheaper (and possible now, while true machine intelligence may be just a dream) why are we wasting time training machines when we could be training humans in- stead. The only reasons that I can see are that intelligent systems can be made small enough and light enough to sit on bombs. Are there any other reasons? Daniel Paul danny%ngstl1%ti-eg@csnet-relay