Cyhist Dec 24 1996 A

Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 11:14:31 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: John Ahlstrom <jahlstro@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Thinking and Intelligence and Computers (was:I got a chill)

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John Clark wrote:

Michael, while it may be romantic to speak so of chess playing algorithms, but i can tell you from personal experience they are *not* intelligent in any way. All big iron brings to the party is the kind of horsepower necessary to drive the computational horizon of the algorithm out far enough to give a genius like Gary Kasparov a hard time. i don't know what Gary Kasparov intended in his comment, but i have a hard time giving todays computers the ability to think.

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Can someone send me some URLs or book titles where I can get useful definitions of "think" and "intelligent" that will let me think about this in an intelligent way?

Thanks

John Ahlstrom

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