From postmaster@maxwell.lucifer.com Sun Nov 10 23:53:30 1996 Received: from maxwell.lucifer.com (majordom@[207.167.210.100]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id XAA02701 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:53:27 +0100 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by maxwell.lucifer.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11146 for extropians-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:03:48 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: maxwell.lucifer.com: majordom set sender to postmaster using -f Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 22:04:19 UT From: "David Musick" Message-Id: To: extropians@extropy.org Subject: Being Artificially Intelligent Sender: postmaster@extropy.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org Status: RO X-Status: Ira Brodsky looks behind the curtain and says to me, "Ah ha! So *you* are the AI. " I'm proud to proclaim that I am indeed artificially intelligent. The intelligence I am currently using is the result of tremendous amounts of mental training that I have undergone. Most of my intelligence is my own creation, and a lot of it is from other people who have taught me and from studying other people's work. If something is artificial, that means it is an artifact, created by humans. It does not mean "less than real" or "inferior", as many interpret it. Everything consciously created is, by definition, "artificial". My intelligence is almost entirely my own creation and the creation of other humans whom I have learned from. The basic "hardware" was provided by evolution, but the brilliant intelligence was something created by myself and other humans, and thus is "artificial". The more we direct our growth, the more artificial and self-created we become. I am proud to be artificially intelligent, and I am working dilligently on becoming even more so. - David Musick - question tradition -