Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 11:57:19 12/17/99
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Hi On December 17, 1999 at 03:48:34, Will Singleton wrote: >I would disagree (surprise). The only real definition of intelligence is >awareness of self. That's what separates man from machine, and man from animal. > Once one is self-aware, then real understanding is possible. I did some web-search for definitions of intelligence today. I didn't expect to find a clear definition of it and of course also didn't find one. But there are really interesting articles about it. One of them contained a view-point which I found kinda fascinating and convincing. (for my limited mind at least :) Some of its key-points (the ones I understood ;) are: - AI research has paid too much attention to the development of machinery and programs that seek to imitate human performance. - We know so very little about the nature of human intelligence that we cannot produce a definition that is of use to an AI engineer. Such a definition would have to make no direct reference to either humans or machines. - An analogy has been developed between AI and artificial flight: Of feature of this analogy relevant here is the way in which direct imitation of natural flight proved a relatively fruitless avenue of research. Some pioneers made a detailed study of bird flight. (eg Otto Lilienthal). But working aircraft were developed by achieving greater understanding of the principles of aerodynamics. (Wright) Today some aircraft can imitate some features of bird flight, but totally convincing imitation does not exist. But then it is not of any real importance. According to this article AI should undergo a similar development. If you're interested, the complete article can be found at: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/blayw/tt.html Overall the articles I found (not only this one) gave me a lot of ideas about this "intelligence" issue. At times I find subjects which can be at least as fascinating as chess programming. :) Kind regards, -sargon
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