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From: yamauchi@SPEECH2.CS.CMU.EDU (Brian Yamauchi)
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Subject: (Artificially) Intelligent (Simulated) Parrots
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Date: 4 Apr 88 06:33:40 GMT
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In article <4416@blia.BLI.COM>, heather@blia.BLI.COM (Heather Mackinnon) writes:
> From what I understood, the parrot would indicate whether two objects were
> the same or different shape and color.  Children learn to do this exercise
> by repetition and reinforcement.
> 
> Heather Mackinnon

I am curious whether you would also consider an AI which performed this task
to be intelligent.  If not a hardwired computer vision system, how about a
connectionist network which learned this task through "repetition and
reinforcement"?

The question is not intended to be rhetorical.  The definitions of
"intelligence" are quite fuzzy, and seem to be at least as strongly oriented
against AI systems as against animals.

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Brian Yamauchi                      INTERNET:    yamauchi@speech2.cs.cmu.edu
Carnegie-Mellon University
Computer Science Department
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