Immobots Take Control

It's interesting that programmers are able to develop systems that think of things that the programmer can't ("Immobots Take Control," TR December 2002/January 2003). Or, more precisely, things that the programmer didn't. And here lies the fundamental barrier to intelligent computing: our reality must be distilled into terms the system can understand, and the frame of reference for that understanding is defined by the model. It's time, however, to put our models on the shelf and do some real thinking.

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