Lisp does NOT use RPN - Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 125, Issue 13

From: dkelvey at hotmail.com To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Lisp does NOT use RPN - Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 125, Issue 13 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:57:14 -0800 ---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:30:50 -0500 > From: toby at telegraphics.com.au > To: > Subject: Re: Lisp does NOT use RPN - Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 125, Issue 13 > > On 08/01/14 10:52 PM, dwight wrote: >> The thought was that Artificial Intelligence was a >> rule based system. > > "Rule based systems" turn out to be incredibly useful. Do you ever use > Google Maps? > > (Noting that the afore-mentioned Peter Norvig, who did a lot of work > with symbolic AI, is Google's Director of Research. :) > > --Toby > >> Rule based systems can play a good game of Chess >> but lack the ability to analyze and adapt to completely >> different conditions, like go from a Chess game >> to crossing a street safely. >> The only intelligence if the fellow that came up with >> the rules. >> Adaptive Chess programs have some intelligence but >> only limited. >> Even my pet dog has more intelligence and I have a >> particularly dumb dog. > > > >> Dwight >> >

I didn't say it wasn't useful. In many, many, cases, it can out do me. Even for my bad spelling, I use google to check that the word is right. It is faster and more accurate than I AM for what it does but it still lacks intelligence. It would not pass the Turing test. It is a tough one to pass and all the rule based programs ever made or ever will be made couldN'T pass the Turing test for long. If I knew why that was true and could make an algorithm to solve that, I would be sitting on a yacht off my new tropical island. Dwight