Re: The Land of OS

Adam Barnhart (adamb@CFMC.COM)
Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:04:57 -0700

Blame this on Taylor:
>
>Put current computer languages don't effectively deal with human concerns.
>I could not hold a conversation with you about what kind of bread I would
>to buy at the market if we had to speak in C++. The hybrid language that
>I'm envisioning would allow you to do such operations. You could tell the
>computer about your family and it would understand. Humans and computers
>would be able to think in the same conceptual space.
>
>So I guess I'm talking about AI.

I'm not sure. AI, as I conceive of it, has to do with the process of
learning more than the process of taking action based on information already
extant in a database. Most of what you talk about, I think, would fall into
the latter category. So we're talking about a more clever interface, I
think, more than anything else. The same conceptual space is not
necessarily a biological model.

Adam D. Barnhart
adamb@cfmc.com
ydnt85a@prodigy.com

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