🚀 go-pugleaf

For the last time, I'm willing to say something on the subject,
but I swear, it's the last time (oups, should I really ?)

In article <9301201813.AA05004@TIS.COM>, richard@TIS.COM (Richard Clark) writes:

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|> 	AI is the concept of allowing the program to infer its own set of
|> conclusions based on both input and output data along with its current
|> set of "rules" which it may then decide to modify, allowing it to then
|> reach a different conclusion, which then may cause further modification
|> of its "rules", etc, etc, etc... In other words; self-modifying code.

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|> 	There is *MUCH* more to it... and I've left out 99.9999% of it
|> for simplicity's sake... but I hope you get the general idea... 

Sorry, I can't say I find AI really different from Expert System. Well, if you
want, it's rather working on itself than on outer data. But then ? It cannot
really do things it wasn't meant to do: you have to grogram it to change itself
according to data. Sorry, but I don't feel I can get too enthousiastic about it,
really. Or it would sound just like an old Star Trek movie, really too old to
run for any modern movie award.

Besides, many modern Expert Systems want to learn (fix their own rules first)
before practise. It's not let to evolve all the time because programmers think
their might, were they always encounter the same errors, end up being biased
towards errors, and not acomplish their jobs properly. Much like an old dog
recovering from its training and attacking its masters.

To change one's rules is to change one altogether.

All right, this was my contribution everybody. I quit now.

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	Philippe Dobias

	Ecole Nationale Supe'rieure des Mines de Paris.
	60, Boulevard St Michel
	75006 Paris, France.