Re: Challenge to the behaviourists #2

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:37:57 +0000 (UTC)

"Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> writes:
>"Neil W Rickert" <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message

>> Incidently, the question of control and prediction of human behavior
>> is way off topic for c.a.p

>Um, since we generally want to get artificial intelligence to have human
>intelligence levels, we'd expect to be able to predict and control their
>behaviour just like we would for humans, and that ability would help us
>determine if any AI project was actually successful. Therefore, it is not
>off topic at all.

However, we do not control and predict the behavior of humans. It is
a characteristic of intelligent behavior that it is not predictable,
and that it resists control.

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