Intelligent Design

[Michael Oltmans <moltmans@>]

This week the Kansas State school board ruled that CSAIL must revert to 
LCS and all work on Artificial Intelligence be halted immediately. 
Kansas School board members have declared that Artificial Intelligence 
challenges creationist theories of the origin of life which, by popular 
agreement, must be true.

The influential, Intelligent Design Network, has remained neutral on the 
ruling due to the paradox of a successful AI project proving them both 
correct, that life is the result of intelligent design, and proving them 
wrong by the fact that God(*) was not enrolled in the AI lab and thus 
was not the designer (unless God does in fact enroll, in which case all 
bets are off).  (http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/)

In a shocking turn of events, researchers from the former AI lab have 
come forward to announce that they will in fact cease and desist in 
their research.  An anonymous graduate student reported, "This incident 
in Kansas has shown us that real intelligence is so screwed up that we 
could never hope to model and emulate it with anything artificial, I 
think we should all just be realistic and throw in the towel."


(*) In keeping with GSB policy, for being mentioned by name, God is 
eligible for a free beverage this evening.  Show up to find out is she 
will claim a root beer or something stronger?
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