Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!laas!ralph
From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <111@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 10 Nov 88 10:25:38 GMT
References: <1651@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1666@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <3833@cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
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Status: R

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).
| 
| 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.

Sense it makes, but by the second definition, "intelligence does not
exist", since we cannot build intelligent machines.  Furthermore, I
know of no machine capable of building intelligent machines, etc.
Sounds like a bad definition to me - since I believe that intelligence
exists.

	Ralph@laas.laas.fr