elligent neural networks. There may come a time in the future where planes will fly themselves and taxis will deliver passengers without human intervention. Translation is a wonderful possibility of these expert systems. Imagine the ability to have a device translate your English spoken words into Mandarin Chinese! This goes beyond simple languages and syntactical manipulation. Cultural gulfs in language would also be the focus of such devices. Through the course of Mind and Machine, we have established that artificial intelligence's function will not be to replicate the conscious state of man, but to act as an auxiliary to him. Proponents of Strong AI Thesis and Weak AI Thesis may hold out, but the inevitable will manifest itself in the end. It may be easy to ridicule those proponents, but I submit that in their research into making conscious machines, they are doing the field a favor in the innovations and discoveries they make. In conclusion, technology will prevail in the field of expert systems only if the philosophy behind them is clear and strong. We should not strive to make machines that may supplant our causal powers, but rather ones that complement them. To me, these expert systems will not replace man - they shouldn't. We will see a future where we shall increasingly find ourselves working beside intelligent systems....
