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From: g2g@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ranjan Muttiah)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: A definition of *INTELLIGENCE*
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Date: 16 Mar 90 05:46:37 GMT
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Reply-To: g2g@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ranjan Muttiah)
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In article <5177.25fa2fb6@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> ian@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
>I feel that any definition of intelligence should have a context.  In some
>circumstances it may be useful to ascribe intelligence to a thermostat (for
>example when telling a very small child how a room stays the same
>temperature), even though normally it would not.

If mathematics be the most precise of sciences and its desiderata of
numbers and sets are left undefined, then how in a more imprecise
field such as AI can we define intelligence ?

Answer: You don't !