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Subject: Re: What is AI?

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 12:05:17 12/17/99

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Hi

On December 16, 1999 at 23:19:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
[...]
>AI has two common definitions:
>
>(1) doing something that requires intelligence by a human to do.  IE play
>the game of chess.  But as soon as someone sees how easy this is to do,
>this gets changed to:
>
>(2) doing something that requires intelligence by a human to do.  And it has
>to be done in a way that is very similar to the way the human does it.  IE in
>chess, if a human considers 100 positions to choose a move, then the program has
>to do approximately the same.  (2) is often used when it becomes obvious that
>(1) was much easier than anyone once thought.  :)

See my reply in a similar older thread:
   http://209.35.185.19/ccc/message.html?83069

Kind regards,
 -sargon

PS. I like Bruce's test with the queen. :-)



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