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To: marek_wojna who wrote (45821)	2/7/2004 9:38:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The intelligence of Google isn't the data that's in it, it's the associative processes. That's also a common mistake made in the human education processes, where knowledge is mistaken for education and thinking. Most education is a matter of rote learning. Learn the periodic table, learn the times table, learn a bunch of equations, learn a bunch of constants, learn a bunch of data. Actually, computer chess isn't a matter of recording a lot of games. Also, I wasn't discussing how the computer gets to be intelligent, which as you say is a function of what the engineers did. I was discussing the nature of intelligence and what's coming, not what is. Mq

To: marek_wojna who wrote (45821)	2/7/2004 9:49:50 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Marek, if it waddles like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet, lays eggs that taste like duck eggs, quacks like a duck, etc. then it is a good substitute for a duck. Substitutability is everything. If a machine solves the sort of problems that a human being attacks, and that humans want to solve, then it is a good substitute for a human brain. The investment related take home is that computers and computer driven devices including robots can substitute for humans with fine results. When I type the sound of a Chinese character on a typewriter connected to the right software,I am immediately given the most popular choice of character for that sound. Is that "smart" or "dumb"? Still more advanced feature, to reason from the context, i.e. the previous part of the sentence. Etc.