Re: Challenge to the behaviourists #2
From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:24:14 -0400
Neil W Rickert wrote:
> "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.
>
And I thought such folk were just stubborn sonsabitches....
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