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To: js1138
The abstract I posted does not mention that the circuit designed by genetic programming is not fully understood, even though it works. I would assume that this meets a primary goal of artificial intelligence, the production of useful and novel designs that exceed the abilities of the program creator.

An absolutely incredible paragraph! First you have been arguing against my statements that this circuit shows intelligent design and here you admit completely to the truth of my statements - that scientists even now cannot figure out how the system works. So tell me how you can create a working system with perfectly fitting parts at random and without any idea as to what you want to achieve????????????

As to the AI nonsense - organisms are intelligently designed so that does not count as computer AI material. To put a human brain on a piece of metal does not make it an AI computer. The "A" in AI stands for artificial. There is nothing artificial about an organism.

108 posted on 02/10/2003 5:58:18 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
The "A" in AI stands for artificial. There is nothing artificial about an organism.

I would point out the difference between "artificial" and "natural" is purely semantic. The universe can't tell the difference, and it is trivial to construct an example of why this is. Any argument against this will have to be stronger than an arbitrary semantic classification.

144 posted on 02/10/2003 11:40:20 PM PST by tortoise
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