Author: Mark Taylor
Date: 11:14:54 01/30/98
It seems to me that most people define intelligence as whatever we can
do that "machines" can't do yet.
Some of these things are easy to define, some less easy. An obvious
example from the preceding discussions is about ones chess program that
does not appreciate some positonal dis/advantage of a piece on a
particular square in particular types of position - you then add extra
code to your program to make it do this. One could argue that a truly
intelligent program would realise on its own that it was "getting it
wrong". I think most people would admit their program would fail this
intelligence test.
The people who hold this view ("whatever machines can't do yet") will
have a severe crisis when (as I believe) the human brain is
disassembled/deconstructed and found to be (e.g.) just a complex neural
net. I hope I am around when that day arrives - there will be heated
discussion like nothing we've seen so far!
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