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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The TT && "working definition" of intelligence.
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Date: 30 Jun 91 14:05:15 GMT
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xerox@cs.vu.nl (J. A. Durieux) start
> >>      GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM.
> >>
> >> a)   The system MUST be able to learn.
> >> b)   The system MUST be autonomous.
> >> c)   The system MUST be able to reason.
> >> d)   The system MUST be able to develop self awareness.
> 
> Hmm.  Does this mean that if his illness spreads any further, Stephen
> Hawkin ceases to be intelligent, on behalf of (b)?
> 
> (I am not sure about the name: I mean the physicist in the wheelchair.)

Stephen Hawking, Laucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
University, a post once held by Newton.

Autonomous?  He was recently involved in a minor traffic accident when
his wheelchair was knocked over by a taxi in Cambridge. With his voice
synthesiser broken, the doctors had difficulty in communicating with
him. (He voice finally went when when had a tracheostomy). He later
came to London to give the talk that had to be cancelled as a result
of this accident.

I will refrain from giving out his email address to such a wide
audience: he may wish to comment for himself.


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