Since posters did not voluntarily follow the guidelines the readers of comp.ai voted to moderate the group to keep out off-topic and frivolous posts. For the most part comp.ai.philosophy considers the original goal of AI, technical details of systems are few and the discussion centers around definitions of terms, the means that will be required for producing a general purpose intelligence like a human being and even whether or not it can be done at all. Also don't forget that Dejanews lists discussions from all newsgroups, if its an answer you want it may have already come up and all you have to do is search for it. Sergio Navega has a collection of some of the more important recent discussions in comp.ai.philosophy. Also there is a file caipfaq.zip that contains all the files in this FAQ, you can download it and read it off-line.
Some articles cited here are on the net, often in the form of postscript or tex files.
Bias Every document contains some bias and this FAQ is no exception. This makes me considerably less optimistic about AI's short-term prospects than many people in AI and it also puts me on the fringe of AI Philosophy. I become less optimistic at least about AI's short-term prospects. Recent Changes See the recent changes page . The following list of questions summarizes the topics that come up in comp.ai.philosophy.