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Subject: Inscrutable Intelligence
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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 01:17:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 01:17:00 1983
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 the degree to which a program exhibits
"intelligence."

If you were being asked to spend $millions on a field of inquiry, wouldn't you
find it strange (bordering on absurd) that the principle proponents couldn't
render an operational definition of the object of investigation?

p.s.  I can't imagine that psychology has no operational definition of
intelligence (in fact, what is it?).  So, if worst comes to worst, AI can just
borrow psychology's definition and improve on it.