BK>> So, my musing analysis leads to this question, when you reach the
  BK>> point where you can't actually tell if a computer's response is
  BK>> just a program line, or actual intelligence, can that be considered
  BK>> the dividing line between programming and artificial intelligence?

 AK> A strange question. How do you suppose to create artificial
 AK> intelligence without programming? So, according to atheists

 Well, they would. The question is, when is the programming good
 enough to be intelligence?

 AK> there is a natural intelligence (intelligence of a crow,
 AK> for instance) and there is artificial intelligence that by
 AK> definition must be made by some intelligent force.
 AK> Programming is equal word to making.

 Fortunately, I do not believe Bill Gates is much of a
 programmer. It would be hell to think of Bill Gates as
 equivalent to God.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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