stimulus@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL (WARREN) (12/28/90)
I recently read some comments on the growth of near human computers. It made me add my name to the list. My thoughts are as follows: If computers ever do replace human intelligence, I hope they do a better job. We've developed engines that pollute, weapons that destroy citys in moments. I hope that a computer is capable of coping with the challenge that we ourselves are far from handling, let alone admitting. I hope that they don't have differences of opinions amoung themselves so that they won't talk to each other. And I certainly hope that they have no political ambitions. I wouldn't mind Shakespeare coming back, or a Dostoevski if the machine was really sharp. I only wonder where that machine will gain the experience necessary to create from nothing, or whether it will be big enough to laugh at it's own foolish mistakes. - Neal -