Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!amygdala.cis.ohio-state.edu!thadani From: thadani@amygdala.cis.ohio-state.edu (Sunil Thadani) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: What is your favorite definition of AI? Message-ID: <91998@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 19:25:30 GMT References: <1991Mar4.192154.2209@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <90943@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Sunil Thadani Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 16 In article <90943@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Tom Bylander writes: >My current favorite is: > >AI is the study of the relationship between computation and intelligence. > But if you took computation to mean "symbol manipulation", then doesnt your definition exclude connectionism from the field of AI? Sunil -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= email : thadani@cis.ohio-state.edu Sunil Thadani voice (off.) : (614)292-1370 snail : 226, Bolz Hall, CIS Dept, Ohio State Univ, Col OH-43210