2008/7/21 Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is a real patent, unfortunately... > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F6587846 > > But I think it will expire before anyone has the technology to implement it. > :-)
The idea that you can patent an invention which doesn't exist seems like an abuse of the system to me, but the US patent office is well known as perhaps the most permissive in the world. I think the attitude they take is that you can pretty much patent anything, and then whether the patent stands up or not just depends upon subsequent legal squabbling. Certainly this patent contains very high level ill-defined concepts, long pondered by philosophers and esposed by poets. What is grace, free will, or evil? Intuitively, most people believe that they know what these concepts mean, but when you drill down it all begins to get far murkier. Whether there will be robots furnished with such cognitive glitterati within the next 30 years remains to be seen. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
