Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 06:23:14 01/28/98
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Hi Amir: No, I am not saying that computer are smarter than average people and so you criticism miss the target. What I say is that average human intelligence is very poor and so we should think twice before use it as a measure of perfomance or a comparative standard to measure non-human intelligence. Of course computer does not do what even bees do, as you pointed very well, but that is not also the issue as much as I cannot believe anyone is trying to produce a flying computer that sucks from roses as Bees do. For what, if we already have bees? In the same manner, is not neccesary to do a vehicle that imitates human kind of locomotion. In fact, we have got something better than legs: wheels. So, narrowing the scope to specific task, as playing chess, and defining intelligence as a kind of behaviour capable of solving problems and learning from them, i would say that AI exist, even if it is not perfect, even if it is low. And so to pretend that there is not AI in chess or elsewhere because human intelligence -low as it is in average, as I said- does not perform the very same kind of operations to solve the same problems is lacking of sense to me. But my point is, I insist, besides any discussion about AI, that is somewhat pretentious for our part to talk so much of a faculty we scarcely have. Human Intellkigence, exception made with great brains, is not the great thing. And yes, I talk from personal experience :-)
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