Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 10:22:39 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 12:49:18, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On October 15, 2002 at 12:18:41, Terry McCracken wrote: > >[snip] > >>Machines have _no_ intelligence. > >I always found it amusing that people are quick to conclude that machines have >no intelligence, but when asked to give a definition of what intelligence really >is, they fail miserably. > >Sargon I have no need to give a definition. It's plain silly to think a computer thinks! It's a calculater, reason plays no part. OTH intelligence is needed just to make a simply reply to your post. Ask a computer the definition of intelligence, it can't explain it. It's a meaningless question to a computer, even if a human wrote a programme for the machine to give such a definition. So who/what gave the definition? The human or the machine? The answer, the human. If the definition is faulty, then the human gave a faulty definition. The computer won't understand that. It doesn't understand anything, period. Intelligence is comprised with many many elements, none except memory apply to the machine, and even that is quite different than human memory. Abstraction, is nonexistent in the machine, awareness, adaptability, understanding...these do not belong to the machine...not yet and not for a long, long time to come.
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