Author: Don Dailey
Date: 13:38:14 01/28/98
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>I am not a big Carl Sagan fan, but in one of his books, I believe it was >The Dragons of Eden, I think he suggested that intelligence is an >individual's capacity for adaptation. Sorry for the vagueness but I >read all of his stuff in approximately 1980. > >Personally, I think this definition is a good one, better than the one >in the OED at describing this part of the word's meaning. This is not a bad definition. There is a real sense that most chess programs do not adapt (but there programmers do from version to version.) The learning stuff in some of the programs does try to provide adaptation at least weakly. - Don
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