Re: Short Circuiting Artificial Intelligence

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:18:28 +0200, "Joachim Pimiskern"
<JoachimPimiskern@xxxxxx> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>"Lester Zick" <lesterDELzick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
>> Perhaps it is time to stop trying to build ai artifacts
>> which can run faster than a speeding bullet or leap over
>> tall buildings to build one that can simply do what no
>> animal can do and create and tell and get jokes.
>
>Nearly all jokes (I don't know exceptions) have
>a common structure where a person is trapped by
>an odd kind of ambiguity. A common variation of this
>principle is to use metaphors literally.

A good clue and one which highlights some implications of the problem
in that an ai artifact would have to understand metaphorical usage to
begin with not to mention the idea of ambiguity and its source.

~v~~

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