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Pascal Bourguignon spam at thalassa.informatimago.com
Tue Oct 21 19:53:22 EDT 2003 
"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> [...]
> Nor have you given any sort of guideline on how to implement
> this sort of AI in the first place.  Without it, you've just restated
> the dream of many people over the last few centuries.  It's a
> dream I would like to see happen, which is why I agreed with you.
> [...]
> Truely I believe that programming languages as we know
> them are not the (direct) solution, hence my pointers to
> evolvable hardware and similar techniques.

You're  right, I  did not  answer.  I  think that  what is  missing in
classic software, and that ought to be present in AI software, is some
introspective  control:  having  a  process checking  that  the  other
processes are  live and  progressing, and able  to act to  correct any
infinite loop,  break down  or dead-lock.  Some  hardware may  help in
controling  this controling  software, like  on the  latest Macintosh:
they automatically restart when the system is hung.  And purely at the
hardware level,  for a real  life system, you  can't rely on  only one
processor.

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