If you build an AI which has emotions and is functionally indistinguishable from a human in terms of emotional response, I will be very impressed. You haven't done that, though, have you? Nor has anyone else. Call me when you do. (Better give your great-great-grandson my phone number.) This is what the turing test is hoping to determine, but so far no (AI creation) has been able to pass it though some have reportedly come close. When considering if passing the Turing test is proof that "computers can think and reason in exactly the same way people do", it interesting to note Searle's conclusion compared to Turing's in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test. And by the way, I'm a real human, not an AI.

[The "no polynomial-time algorithm" bit is only true if P!=NP. And to the best of human knowledge, it happens to be the case that P!=NP.] Actually, we don't know for sure if P!=NP (though most experts in the field of computational complexity beleive this is the case), and no one has been able to prove or disprove that P==NP.

-- Have you played pac man C.E.? best pacman ever. I've played countless pac man variants but the best pac man ever is Neil Roy's Deluxe Packman. Great sound and game play. My kids and I spend hours competing against each other, and sometimes my wife joins in too.

"01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011" = "ur a geek" in ASCII, "75 72 20 61 20 67 65 65 6b" in hexadecimal, and "117 114 32 97 32 103 101 101 107" in decimal.

A Mr. Don Bright emailed me to ask if I really thought that Einstein would have worked for Darpa. My response is below:
Yes, I think Einstein would have worked for DARPA (if he was given the security clearance). Please note that Edward Teller (who was directly involved in the Manhattan Project) was also a friend of Einstein and was consulted by Einstein's team about the necessity and urgency to develop the nuclear bomb. Discover states "Despite helping to spur Roosevelt into action, Einstein never worked directly on the bomb project. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI even back then, wrote a letter to General Sherman Miles, who initially organized the efforts, that described Einstein's pacifist activities and suggested that he was a security risk. In the end, Einstein played only a small role in the Manhattan Project. He was asked by Vannevar Bush, one of the project's scientific overseers, to help on a specific problem involving the separation of isotopes that shared chemical traits. Einstein was happy to comply. Drawing on his old expertise in osmosis and diffusion, he worked for two days on a process of gaseous diffusion in which uranium was converted into a gas and forced through filters." Taken from http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/18-chain-reaction-from-einstein-to-the-atomic-bomb/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
Note that the article says "Einstein was happy to comply" to work for the Govt/Military on this aspect of the project, and it could be implied that it was just because he was not given the necessary security clearance why he did not become more directly involved in the larger Manhattan Project.
Regards.
David W. White

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, don bright wrote:
From: don bright
Subject: Re: your question on slashdot
To: David W. White
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 12:42 PM
yes but would Einstein work for darpa? You did not ask "where are all
the Edward Tellers"