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- From: 90dobias@cc.ensmp.fr (Philippe DOBIAS <90dobias@cc.ensmp.fr>)
- Subject: Re: AI SIMPIFICATION
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.175245.28036@ensmp.fr>
- Sender: 90dobias@monk (Philippe DOBIAS <90dobias@cc.ensmp.fr>)
- Organization: Ecole des Mines de Paris
- References: <9301201813.AA05004@TIS.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:52:45 GMT
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- For the last time, I'm willing to say something on the subject,
- but I swear, it's the last time (oups, should I really ?)
-
- In article <9301201813.AA05004@TIS.COM>, richard@TIS.COM (Richard Clark) writes:
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- |> AI is the concept of allowing the program to infer its own set of
- |> conclusions based on both input and output data along with its current
- |> set of "rules" which it may then decide to modify, allowing it to then
- |> reach a different conclusion, which then may cause further modification
- |> of its "rules", etc, etc, etc... In other words; self-modifying code.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- |> There is *MUCH* more to it... and I've left out 99.9999% of it
- |> for simplicity's sake... but I hope you get the general idea...
-
- Sorry, I can't say I find AI really different from Expert System. Well, if you
- want, it's rather working on itself than on outer data. But then ? It cannot
- really do things it wasn't meant to do: you have to grogram it to change itself
- according to data. Sorry, but I don't feel I can get too enthousiastic about it,
- really. Or it would sound just like an old Star Trek movie, really too old to
- run for any modern movie award.
-
- Besides, many modern Expert Systems want to learn (fix their own rules first)
- before practise. It's not let to evolve all the time because programmers think
- their might, were they always encounter the same errors, end up being biased
- towards errors, and not acomplish their jobs properly. Much like an old dog
- recovering from its training and attacking its masters.
-
- To change one's rules is to change one altogether.
-
- All right, this was my contribution everybody. I quit now.
-
- --
-
- Philippe Dobias
-
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