Man and
Computer What makes people different from computer programs
What is the missing element that our theories don’t yet (51)
for The answer is simple: People read newspaper stories (52)
a reason to learn more about what they are interested in. Computers,
on the other hand, don’t. In fact, computers don’t (53) have
interests; there is nothing in particular that they are trying to find out when
they read. If a computer (54) is to be a model of story
understanding, it should also read for a "purpose". Of course,
people have several goals that do not make (55) to attribute
to computers. One might read a restaurant guide in order to satisfy hunger or
entertainment goals, or to (56) a good place to go for a
business lunch. Computers do not (57) , and computers do not
have business lunches. However, these physiological and social
goals give (58) to several intellectual or cognitive (认知的)
goals. A goal to satisfy hunger gives rise to goals to find (59)
about the name of a restaurant which serves the desired type of food,
how expensive the restaurant is, the (60) of the restaurant,
etc. These are goals to (61) information or knowledge, what
we are calling (62) goals. These goals can be held by
computers too a computer might "want" to find out the location of a restaurant,
and read a guide in order to do so (63) the same way as a
person might. While such a goal would not (64) out of hunger
in the case of the computer, it might (65) rise out of
the "goal" to learn more about restaurants.
