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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by jerf on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:49PM (#1914983)
A definition has no power to change the engineering feasibility of a task. If it is possible to build a strong AI from a series of weak AI steps, which is certainly not out of the question (one can argue that's how human brains work), no amount of definition will change that.
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by JonnieCache on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @03:01PM (#1915496)
However if we accept the definition, then it is surely meaningless (pointless?) to discuss AI progress in those terms.

EDIT: what i really mean is that I reject the strong/weak AI dichotomy. I really need to resist the urge to play pointless semantic games. Guess thats an occupational hazard of programming all day long.

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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by joshes on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:07PM (#1915309)
This takes us back to the problem of emergence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence), something that AI researchers, entomologists, economists, et al. have been struggling with for some time.
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