Space Settlement

>
> Space travel itself was a dream for thousands of years. In
> particular, traveling to the Moon was the height of wild fantasy.
Wan
> Hu, Baron Munchausen, the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel _The Moon
Maid_.
> But it happened.
>
> A.I. may well take a long, long time. I suppose it could even be an
> impossibility (though that smacks of vitalism). But if it is, it
has
> to be for some reason better than that it hasn't been done already.
>
> Still, I won't fall over in shock if, forty years from now, the
> experts predict A.I. "in the next ten years."
>

You bet! That's what I mean. The experts always predict A.I. "in the
next ten years", since the last 50 years. I demand to have a "HAL
9000" at home, and not just this ridiculous PC. Lol!

For A.I. to have a real chance to exist we should know better how N.I.
(natural intelligence) works. That may come in the next centuries, or
it may turn out to be too complex to achieve in thousand of years. For
now it seem to me it is a fantasy, like travelling to the Moon it was
in the Rome of the times of Lucian of Samosata.

Omar Vega