On 5/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is just like the discussion that John Clark and I are having. I doubt<br>if you'll get anyone to subscribe to the notion that they'll "will just do what<br>we program them to". It's trickier than that.
</blockquote><div><br>I think the statement is accurate given that we're dealing with one-sentence summaries here. For example, a theorem-proving program may find proofs the programmer didn't know about in advance - it had better, or no point in writing it! But it's not going to say "all this math is boring, let's have some sex and violence", not without being explicitly programmed to. In the domain of one-sentence summaries, I think "will just do what we program them to" is a good way to describe that.
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