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From: lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch)
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Subject: Re: What is AI Exactly?
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Date: 17 Sep 90 15:04:26 GMT
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Philip Mullhaupt asks, "wouldn't the US Congress" meet the following
requirements and thus be classified as 'intelligent':
a) Able to learn
b) Autonomous
c) Able to reason
d) Self-aware


No, Philip, the US Congress clearly does NOT satisfy c) Able to reason.

On a more serious note, one could inject e) Be a single organism, but that
would rule out all those sci-fi aliens with only a "collective intelligence",
and I don't think we want to do that.

"TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu