The physicists in cyberspace would inhabit a world not of 3-dimensional space plus time, but of communications channels, virtual circuits, data packets, programs, resources, URIs, and IP addresses. There would be hardware errors from time to time, causing anomalous experimental outcomes-there would simply be no explanation at their level for what had happened. If a computer broke, a part of their universe would vanish. We have probably been looking at the artificial intelligence problem in the wrong way. But the intelligence that is useful to humans now might not be the same as the intelligence that will be useful to humans and computers in the future.
Intelligence is relative to the context in which it is embedded.
If we were to succeed at creating a program that is intelligent in the real world, then that same program might be clueless in cyberspace. Develop an intelligent agent in Java which uses the ThoughtTreasure representation language to negotiate appointments. The agent should handle the various cases which arise in human negotiation and keep track of the current status of all appointments. Wednesday is bad for me. All Rights Reserved.