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- From: pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Re: AI vs Cognitive Science
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.205102.7441@ils.nwu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:51:02 GMT
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- Aaron Sloman says:
- > Taking a broad perspective, then, we can say that as a matter of
- > historical, social, fact (i.e. not a matter of definition), AI
- > activities encompass two main kinds of goals ENGINEERING and SCIENTIFIC,
- > both concerned with the study of *designs* for intelligent systems,
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- Biology has grown beyond its misconceptions about structure and behavior
- based on "design principles". When will cognitive science and AI?
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- > where "intelligent" is deliberately left undefined because we don't yet
- > know what options there are for drawing boundaries within the whole
- > space of behaving systems. (It is therefore premature to try to define a
- > sub-set of behaving systems as intelligent.)
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- > So AI thus conceived includes:
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- > 1. Engineering
- > Attempting to design useful machines that do things that require
- > intelligence (especially human-like intelligence), for example:
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- If we are in fact unsure of what "intelligence" means, why are we sure that
- AI engineering is any different from software engineering?
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