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Article #8465Re: Artificial Sentient Beings
From: Kort
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 20:11
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 20:11
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In article <1736@aipna.ed.ac.uk> cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes: > In article <81715@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort) writes: > > I would like to see the construction of an Artificial Sentient Being > > by the end of the Millenium (just 11 years away). The question is > > whether SAIL, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, or the Japanese labs will get > > there first. > Sentient? If by sentience you mean to imply conscious awareness I think > we've probably left it too late to get there by the EOM :-) But if > looking like a fish, quacking like a fish, etc., is good enough for you, > then some Scottish labs are in this game too, such as Edinburgh, and the > Turing Institute (Glasgow). Nor should you forget the Brady gang in > Oxford. If the Brits or the Scots can get there first, more power to 'em! --Barry Kort
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!philmtl!philabs!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Artificial Sentient Beings Summary: I wonder if the Russians will beat us all at this one, too. Keywords: Artificial Life, Artificial Creatures, Androids Message-ID: <82977@linus.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 89 20:11:03 GMT References: <1698@aipna.ed.ac.uk> <11870@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1989Dec3.185506.22039@cs.rochester.edu> <81715@linus.UUCP> <1736@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kort) Organization: The MITRE Corp. Bedford, MA Lines: 19