Author: Graham Laight
Date: 07:16:12 03/28/00
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People define intelligence in many different ways. In the linked article, intelligence is defined as the ability to solve problems. I would define intelligence thus: the ability to find information which is relevant to the presented situation. In the article, intelligence is stipulated as being the ability to solve "new" problems. "Baloney", say I. NOBODY can solve new problems. People solve problems (or components of problems (sub-problems)) by treating them as examples of problem types which they already know how to solve (or where they know where to get the relevant information). By my definition, it would (will?) be possible for a machine to clearly demonstrate its superior intellect to a human. My opinion of the article is that it is a good discussion of when a single computer will have as much computing power as the human brain. Those of us who follow computer chess, however, know that copying the human brain is not the most efficient way to create something which can demonstrate intelligent behaviour. -g On March 27, 2000 at 23:19:30, John Coffey wrote: >Intelligence is a collection of many different skills (some say there are 12 >kinds of intelligence) that we ascribe to being intelligent. So what is Super >Intellelligence? Is it being able to do human like tasks better than humans or >something we don't even recognize? If the former is true then we already have >super intelligence on a limited scale. > >My point is that pen and paper is a better memory device than most people. A >slide rule can do math better than most people. The advancement of computer >intelligence won't be something that suddenly overtakes us but instead it will >be integrated with our daily lives and become a part of us. The real super >intelligence will be us with our powerful new tools. > >John Coffey
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