Re: Short Circuiting Artificial Intelligence

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:48:45 -0700, "AlphaOmega"
<OmegaZero2003@xxxxxxxxx> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>This is simply (haha) a matter of reasoning by analogy - most jokes play on
>that concept. But getting a machine to reason by analogy (ala Cyc) is no
>easy matter indeed.

So every analogy is a joke, Alpha? Well I might admit that every
analogy I've seen on most of these groups are jokes, but jokes are not
necessarily analogies although I would hesitate to say there is no
analogical reasoning essential to joke telling. I'm still waiting to
see a funny machine.

>"Lester Zick" <lesterDELzick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:42fb630b.133646333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Short Circuiting Artificial Intelligence
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>>
>> In the movie Short Circuit the robot finally recognizes intelligence
>> in himself for certain when he is able to laugh at a joke. 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.
>>
>> ~v~~
>>
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~v~~

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