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The Difference between Man and Computer What makes people different from computer programs? What is the missing element that our theories dont yet ______ for? The answer is simple: People read newspaper stories for a reason: to learn more about ______ they are interested in. Computers, on the other hand, dont. In fact, computers dont ______ have interests; there is nothing in particular that they are trying to find out when they read. If a computer ______ 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 ______ to attribute to computers1. One might read a restaurant guide ______ order to satisfy hunger or entertainment goals, or to ______ a good place to go for a business lunch. Computers do not get hungry, and computers do not have business lunches. However, these physiological and social goals give ______ to several intellectual or cognitive goals. A. goal to satisfy hunger gives rise to goals to find ______ about the name of a restaurant which ______ the desired type of food, how expensive the restaurant is, the location of the restaurant, etc. These are goals to ______ information or knowledge, what we are calling ______ goals. These goals can be held by computers too; a computer ______ want to find out the location of a restaurant, and read a guide in order to do so ______ the same way as a person might. While such a goal would not ______ out of hunger in the case of the computer2, it might well arise out of the goal to learn more about restaurants. | 
