Author: Dan Homan
Date: 09:56:09 01/29/98
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On January 28, 1998 at 21:44:42, Don Dailey wrote:
>I still have a feeling everyone is not talking about the same thing.
>Everyone is stating their point of view but no one has yet defined
>intelligence. Bruce did give it a shot (and I like it) but it's
>still very general. I have a feeling we might all agree on whether
>programs were intelligent or not if we had the same definition in mind.
>
>But what does everyone THINK intelligence is? Obviously some of
>us think playing chess is, others think it is not. Or at least
>the way it's played by computers vs humans. And yet we all
>know exactly how a chess program actually works. So there is
>some point where we disagree on the definition.
>
>- Don
>
I laid out one possible definition in a previous post.. Intelligence
provides us with a set of abilities. If you can mimick those
abilities, you can mimick intelligence. Perhaps intelligence is
nothing more than a set of abilities. Perhaps intelligence is
something much more, and these abilities are just the 'observable
consequences'. I'm not sure which is the case....
Here are some that come to mind.
1) Ability to solve a variety of complex problems.
2) Ability to generalize knowledge gained from past experience
to novel problems and situations.
3) Ability to learn something completely out of the scope
of the original programming. (For us, almost everything we
learn is beyond our original 'programming' (or instincts)).
4) Ability to create.
I'm sure there are others that people would like to add as well,
feel free to do so.
- Dan
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