<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Dave Sill </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>​</div>If I could have a conversation with Watson and see that it was an actual insight and not just a lucky Google hit that would be pretty impressive. When/if real artificial intelligence does come along, some people are going to believe it immediately, some people will never believe it, but the vast majority will accept it over time. The fact that we're playing "what if" games about behaviors that Watson doesn't exhibit kind of confirms Schank's point that it's not there yet.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Granted computers aren't smart ​about everything, but then people aren't either. But c</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">omputers already show greater than human intelligence in playing Chess and Go and ​Jeopardy and in finding the websites that tell you what you want to know. And if </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"​</div>actual insight<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​" isn't needed to do that then </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"​</div>actual insight<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​" isn't very important.</div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div>