Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:14:02 03/14/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 12:11:41, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Well, Bruce, your answer widens the scope of the debate. To begin with, the >concept of intelligence as something proper of an entity capable of intelligent >behaviour does not solve the problem as much intelligence as such is not clearly >stated first. Sounds a little bit like a circular reasonning. Nevertheless I I consider that for these purposes, intelligence is the ability to provide good solutions to the majority of problems inside a difficult and wide problem domain. A pocket calculator can provide good solutions across a wide problem domain, but the domain is not difficult. I can't think of an example where a hard problem is solved through specific coding, but I'm sure they exist. I think that a lot of things that are in the AI category are things that meet my definition. For example, speech recognition, military image processing, advanced database searching, etc. All of these are difficult problems that require general solutions. bruce >concur with the sheer fact that all this is a matter of behaviour in certain >frames of reference. Probably a way to approach the problem is, then, to reject >from the beginning the idea of intelligence as some sustantive, specific entity >we can define in a sentence. Maybe it is more like a cluster of certain >behavioral abilities in different levels and empirical ocasions. In that case >even such a mechanical thing as to remember is fundamental. And certainly the >capacity to calculate accurately inside a system of rules is, as well, a kind of >intelligence. And the highest one would be the creative endeavour of the so >called genuses that change the entire frame of rererence. If this is so, then, >yes, we could say program show intelligence in some level. >Cheers >Fernando
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