On the Other Hand …

Clusters of conversation provide a more valuable way to spend ones time than attending sessions. At the last national meeting we escaped from the celebrations of the recent victory of Deep Blue over the dreaded Kasparov, to find just such a group, already engaged in an animated discussion: A: We need to draw a line. A: Between a program that has some intelligence in it and one that doesn't. All Deep Blue does is brute-force search. That hardly counts as AI.