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of airline flights. Nor does anyone suppose that the computer simulation of the flow of money in the Brazilian economy will increase our supply of cruzeiros. Similarly, in accordance with the weaker conception of AI, we should not think that a computer simulation of cognitive processes actually did any real thinking.
According to this weaker, or more cautious, version of AICS, we can use the computer to do models or simulations of mental processes, as we can use the computer to do simulations of any other process that we can describe precisely enough to enable us to program its simulation on a computer. This other extreme of artificial intelligence I call Weak AI. No one, I believe, could argue with Weak AI.