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 amodelof 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(认识的) 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.
