[computer-go] Slides for Villach-EC Lecture

[Jacques Basaldúa]

The word in AI I don't feel conformable with is Artificial, not 
Intelligence. I use _Abstract_ Intelligence (also AI) as a replacement. 
Have you ever heard of artificial aerodynamics (applicable to planes but 
not to birds) or artificial thermodynamics (the same). I understand that 
AI is the science of thinking machines and that, of course, applies to 
biological ones. Aerodynamics was not developed by ornithologists and 
neither will the theory of thinking machines be developed by any 
frog-rippers. Electrical engineers laugh at a joke in which someone 
pretends to have found The Physical Location Of The Notepad (all 
capitalization is insufficient to reach the pompous statements 
frog-rippers use to make) in the floppy disk. After a conclusive 
experience placing electrodes on different parts of a computer, it has 
been proved that the floppy disk unit triggers each time the application 
Notepad is launched. Of course, the reason behind the floppy access is 
the last file opened was "a:\readme.txt". All serious science is a part 
of Mathematics ( if not, Mathematics will absorb it ;-) ) and so is the 
science of thinking machines: AI.

Jacques.

PD. The only explanation I find to the "need" of the word artificial is 
the (for me totally unexplainable) respect educated Anglo-Saxons have 
for religion. This way, it looks compatible with religion, but of course 
it isn't. The soul of a thinking machine is an anti-scientific notion no 
matter what kind of thinking machine.