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just a machine
When will the AI researchers stop equating human intelligence with logic? Logical thought is a very specific kind of intelligence. They are not equivalent.
I see that after 50 years of research, AI researchers still miss this basic point. That in itself is a great argument for inter-disciplinary study, because some basic psychology or cognitive science should make that abundantly clear.