Author: Haugeland, John
Description: The trouble with Artificial Intelligence is that computers don’t give a damn-or so I will argue by considering the special case of understanding natural language. Linguistic facility is an appropriate trial for AI because input and output can be handled conveniently with a teletype, because understanding a text requires understanding its topic (which is unrestricted), and because there is the following test for success: does the text enable the candidate to answer those questions it would enable competent people to answer? The thesis will not be that (human-like) intelligence cannot be achieved artificially, but that there are identifiable conditions on achieving it.
Subject headings: Artificial Intelligence; Holism; Knowledge; Language; Natural Language; AI
Publication year: 1979
Journal or book title: The Journal of Philosophy
Volume: 76
Issue: 11
Pages: 619-632
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