Author: allan johnson
Date: 23:38:22 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 21:17:46, Dann Corbit wrote: >A similar thread brings up an interesting question, "What is AI?" > >An old test was supposed to be that if we are playing a remote opponent we can't >tell if it is a human or a machine. I think that can probably be achieved now >(especially if we throw in a bit of randomness). > >Then what tends to happen is that we say, "That's not really artificial >intelligence. After all, it's just a machine, so it _can't_ be." We simply >move the target and we are safe from the encroachment of the machine into "our" >domain. > >If (for instance) I was playing some opponent using Winboard and I only knew it >was one of: >"Kasparov" >"Deep Blue" > >I would have no way of guessing which was which, since either one would pound my >stuffings out effortlessly. > >So the question stands, "What is AI?" and along with it, the related question, >"Are chess programs intelligent?" Dann.Defining intelligence is not easy.For me it's not so much the computer that is intelligent but rather the programmer.Of course people are going to argue that the program exhibits some form of intelligence in selecting a good move from a selection of possibilities.Yet again I would argue that it is still acting on info fed into it and has not reasoned out the position in the same way as humans.(I know this claim on its own will have many opponents)Personally I love computers but believe that intelligence is more than the ability to calculate. Allan
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