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[DPRG] SRS thread
Subject: [DPRG] SRS thread
From: dpa
dpa at io.isem.smu.edu
Date: Mon Apr 30 19:10:29 CDT 2007
Howdy,
Steve writes:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:37, dpa wrote:
> > But of course we don't really need a word for machines with
> > human level intelligence because no such thing exists. <...>
>
> Karel ?apek would beg to differ. :) He needed a word to describe
> humanoid machines with human-like intelligence and coined "robot" for
> the job. We've stretched the meaning quite a bit since then to include
> sub-human levels of intelligence but I'm not willing to completely
> discard the original meaning yet.
Ok, if we're talking about imaginary beings from literature, then I think
we are in agreement that "humanoid machines with human-like intelligence"
belongs in its rightful place alongside leprechauns and unicorns and
Peter Pan and SpiderMan and other similar fun and fanciful imaginary beings
of no particular use to robot builders.
So we agree!
best,
dpa
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