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Subject: Re: chess and AI.

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 01:46:34 06/28/01

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On June 27, 2001 at 18:05:17, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Hi
>
>On June 27, 2001 at 16:54:08, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>[snip]
>>The author demands too much.  He's demanding much more generalized human-style
>>intelligence.  It's possible to be intelligent in a smaller domain.  A program
>>doesn't have to be able to write a sonnet before you can apply the term
>>"intelligent" to it other than as marketing hype.
>>
>>bruce
>
>That's part of what I meant in a previous post. Some have such a generalized
>"definition of intelligence" that as long as an engine doesn't go to school when
>it's 8 years old and maybe marries another engine some years later, it's not
>considered intelligent. If you define intelligence in such a human-style way,
>there's already another word for it: human.

That's why computers will never be intelligent. Intelligence is defined as
humans being able to do things a computer can't. As soon as the computer can do
it, it's not regarded as intelligence anymore.

Tony

>
>Regards,
>
>Sargon



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