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Here's that unforgettable quote:

It is not my aim to surprise or shock you - but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn and create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until - in a visible future - the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which human mind has been applied.

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...future,

One of us is also sure that the TT, and variants thereof, is inadequate; see [Bringsjord, 1995].

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...stories.

An insightful review of this book has been written by Tom Trabasso [Trabasso, 1996].

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...storyteller.

The project is known as Autopoeisis, and now falls within a recently launched larger investigation of machine creativity undertaken by the Creative Agents Group at RPI.

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...betrayal.

The following definition gives a sense of the relevant formalization:

Def8#8 8

Agent 9#9 betrays agent 10#10 at 11#11 iff there exists some state of affairs p and 12#12 such that

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10#10 at 13#13 wants p to occur;

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9#9 believes that 10#10 wants p to occur;

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(3 14#14 6') 15#15

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10#10 wants at 16#16 that there is no action a which 9#9 performs in the belief that thereby p will not occur;

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there is some action a such that:

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9#9 performs a at 11#11 in the belief that thereby p will not occur; and

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it's not the case that there exists a state of affairs q such that q is believed by 9#9 to good for 10#10 and 9#9 performs a in the belief that q will not occur;

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9#9 believes at 17#17 that 10#10 believes that there is some action a which 9#9 will perform in the belief that thereby p will occur.

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...evil

In the case of evil, BRUTUS7#7's knowledge is based upon M. Scott Peck's description of this phenomenon as a species of psychiatric illness [Peck, 1983].

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