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From franklin@anduril.memphis.edu  Mon Mar  6 06:23:59 2000
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 05:25:38 +0000
From: Stan Franklin <franklin@memphis.edu>
To: Dr John J Weng <weng@cse.msu.edu>
Subject: development in machines

John,

In a recent article about the history of AI, I found the following quote
from Donald Michie, one of the founders of AI.


> The most notable nontrend has resulted
> from consistent disregard of the closing
> section, Learning Machines, of Turingís
> 1950 paper. A two-stage approach is there
> proposed:
> 1. Construct a teachable machine,
> 2. Subject it to a course of education.
> Far from incorporating Turingís incre-mental
> principle, even the most intelligent
> of todayís knowledge-acquisition systems
> forget almost everything that they ever
> learned every time their AI masters turn to
> the next small corner of this large world.
> As someone who knew Alan Turing well
> and what he had in mind, I rate this as the
> most significant nontrend by far of the
> half-century. Let us now change this.
>

Apparently, the notion of machine development goes back all the way to
Turing.

Stan

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