[Yr7-10it] VELS and IT

[Con Zymaris]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 01:25:59AM +1000, Bill Kerr wrote:

...

> 
> Could it be that computers and AI research (Minsky, Brookes) will lead us to
> rethinking Blooms taxonomy? Computers can beat Kasparov at chess but they
> can't yet do "simple" things like make a mud pie.

It's a well understood maxim that computers can encapsulate high-level 
expertise, for example the knowledge of a doctor or a lawyer, in such 
vehicles as expert system shells, but they cannot reproduce the common 
sense of a four year old child. To see why they never will, read Penrose:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose

Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)

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