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From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G. Person)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 16 Sep 90 08:30:15 GMT
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Ok, I've thought about this for a while.  Doesn't the term intelligent
conote a sense of "understanding" in terms of interest?

I mean wouldn't a program have to be aware of it's surroundings and
interactions with it's own environment to be considered intelligent.  We
consider most live things (animals, birds etc) to be intelligent because
they are actively involved with with their environments and make adjustments
accordingly.
Curiostiy would also factor in here. And just how the heck would you make a
program curious?  Could you give it a desire to learn? Could you make it
wonder about the world around it?

   Our thoughts are essentially the independent stringing together of random
pieces of information to a cohereent conclusion.
  For example, I took what little knowledge I have about AI, some knowledge
about life, some knowledge gainned by a couple of years of philosohpy
classes, and came up with this article.I've strung pieces of innane trivia
together tp form my own opinion.  And that is most probably what
intelligence and AI are all about.
-- 
Brett G. Person
North Dakota State University
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