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Aaron Sloman says:
> Taking a broad perspective, then, we can say that as a matter of
> historical, social, fact (i.e. not a matter of definition), AI
> activities encompass two main kinds of goals ENGINEERING and SCIENTIFIC,
> both concerned with the study of *designs* for intelligent systems,

Biology has grown beyond its misconceptions about structure and behavior
based on "design principles".  When will cognitive science and AI?

> where "intelligent" is deliberately left undefined because we don't yet
> know what options there are for drawing boundaries within the whole
> space of behaving systems. (It is therefore premature to try to define a
> sub-set of behaving systems as intelligent.)

> So AI thus conceived includes:

> 1. Engineering
>     Attempting to design useful machines that do things that require
>     intelligence (especially human-like intelligence), for example:

If we are in fact unsure of what "intelligence" means, why are we sure that
AI engineering is any different from software engineering?

     -dp-