Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:02:56 08/05/02
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On August 05, 2002 at 11:54:14, Louis Fagliano wrote: >You don't need an expert to answer this one. Computers can't. Maybe it takes an expert to read the question correctly. He asked if a computer can make a decision, which clearly it can. > The only >"decision" a computer can make is to pick out the largest number in an array of >numbers. Therefore, a computer makes decisions, which contradicts your earlier statement. >There is no intellegence involved in "picking", for example, >the highest value out of the following array of numbers: > >15.2, 4.8, 24.7, -0.9, -2.7, 9.9, 7.9, 10.1 > >It would be 24.7, of course, and arriving at that "chioce" is not >"intellegence", but a simple mathematical consequence of an assigned function >value. It might not be "intelligent", but it IS making a decision, which is the question he asked. >The intellegence comes from the programmer... >There is no intellegence... >It may look like intellegence... Once again, he didn't ask if it was intelligent. >when doing so at high speeds and with a very good >evaluation function (which has to be written by a human), but mimickry is not >the real thing any more than a colored wax figure or mannequin is not the same >as a live person however closely it may resemble it. You're opening up a whole different can of worms. Mimicry is exactly how humans show "intelligence". As a baby grows, it mimics what it's parents and other people do, and mimics sounds it hears. Chess players play moves in the opening because they have seen those moves played thousands of times by masters. If mimcry isn't "the real thing", then we aren't intelligent either. Russell
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