I had a very long and interesting discussion with Geby earlier today (round 0100). It pretained to whether there exists a computer that has the ability to learn. Even any sort of simple learning.
The discussion evolved from this page (at wired). The article is quite interesting but I felt that landing a helicopter using that method would be overkill since a computer could do that.
Geoff countered by stating that although a computer could handle predetermined tasks, only a human (or system capable