[TheForge] Scroll maker/hydraulic hammer

Andy Vida [email protected]
Fri Dec 19 16:06:01 2003


John Husvar wrote:

> We'll know that Artificial Intelligence has come when a production
> machine stops short, spits whatever's in it onto the floor with a clang,
> and prints out: "I can do better than _that_!"

	I hope that day never comes, because when it does, we'll
	all be in large trouble.  Having done my MS in AI, I am
	confident that that day is, at the very least, a long
	way off, though I will never rest on that belief, given
	the ways in which nonlinear jumps in technologies have
	tended to upset many an applecart.