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In article <35@tygra.UUCP> jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
* My point: We are not going to solve the hard problems of AI by 
* simply developing programs for our digital computers. We have to
* develope hardware that has a strong structure/function relationship.

Don't let biological precedent mislead you into this conclusion.  Nobody ever
said that nature has the best of what is possible.

If digital systems and quasi-analogical systems such as neural nets have
complimentary strangths, then combining a digital computer and neural net into
one integrated system (where each tackles those tasks it can best handle) will
undoubtedly create a system capable of more than either is by itself ... and
probably capable of much more than biological systems ever were.

I can already see places where neural nets can be used in conjunction with
a classical problem-solving AI program (e.g. to "learn" evaluation functions)
... and these are just simplistic applications.