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From: dsm@bucsb.UUCP (David Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Message-ID: <2149@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 17:28:53 GMT
References: <1651@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1666@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <3802@cs.utexas.edu> <2413@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <3833@cs.utexas.edu>
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In article <3833@cs.utexas.edu> berleant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Berleant) writes:
>
>Second of all, I define intelligence as "the ability to build
>intelligent machines" (but see footnote 1).
>
>Dan Berleant
>berleant@cs.utexas.edu
>
>footnote 1: A _reasonable_ definition of intelligence that _also_ 
>works for the argument above is this:
>
>Intelligence consists of 2 things, 1)the ability to convince the
>average person that intelligence is being displayed (which I 
>define to have the value of either true or false), and 2)the
>ability to build intelligent machines. This definition makes
>sense and avoids circularity.

Two faults with this reasoning:
1. Humans have not yet shown their ability to create intelligent
machines, and
2. If they did create something that apeared intelligent, who would 
be the intelligent person to decide that it was intelligent, since we
would still be trying to prove it ourselves..

With this your theory on intelligence will not hold...

good try though...                              dsm



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