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From: byland@iris.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tom Bylander)
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Subject: Re: What is your favorite definition of AI?
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Date: 5 Mar 91 22:15:45 GMT
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My current favorite is:

AI is the study of the relationship between computation and intelligence.

Naturally, intelligence is itself related to learning, being
autonomous, reasoning, and self-awareness.  As an AI researcher, I try
to shed some light on some aspects of these relationships, and try to
implement systems that behave intelligently in some fashion.  I think
it would be unfair to criticize my work because it does not study or
produce intelligence "as a whole".  I am a finite resource with
specialized talents and so I cannot study everything at once.  Whether
I am studying the "right" aspects of intelligent in the "right" way is
an open question, but that is true for everybody else, too, even those
who study earwigs.
							Tom