On Thursday 29 May 2003 19:21, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003 18:32:39 +0300, Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is abusing your comparison, but suppose you had built a robot > > > > for milking cows. > > > > > > Excuse my ignorance, but I thought that big dairy farms actually had > > > the process of milking cows totally automated. Or do I live in a > > > fantasy world? > > > > I suppose they do - I didn't really think about it; I was just responding > > to Herouth's allegory, where cows are milked manually. > > They really do, but there are problems (just like in M$ office) see: > <URL: http://www.nature.com/nsu/030310/030310-5.html > > Titled: Teat-seeking robot to help cows milk themselves
Yet we don't say we expect cows to generalize the milking process and then substitute a robot for a human milker or a real calf as needed, thus changing their whole worldview. Can't we expect humans to be as intelligent (in proportion to their existing achievements) as those cows? Only a few cows in the herd didn't adapt to robotic milkers - that's a failure rate that would be acceptable with humans to begin with. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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