Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 09:23:28 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 10:51:52, Dan Homan wrote: >That is like saying that it takes intelligence to solve a system of partial >differential equations therefore algorithms that can do so are >artificially intelligent. It is all how you define intelligence. If >intelligence is simply the ability to solve a particular type of problem, >then lots of things have intelligence (including your washing >machine). No, I think nobody would argue that it takes intelligence to wash your clothes. Before computers could play chess, everybody thought that chess required artificial intelligence. Now nobody seems to care. Same goes for optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, speech recognition, etc. All problems that supposedly required AI--until they were solved. Now people think, "Of course computers can recognize handwriting. That's just some algorithms." That's why a friend of mine once defined artificial intelligence as "something computers aren't allowed to have." -Tom
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