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From: nick@hp-sdd.hp.com (Nick Flor)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Message-ID: <1654@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 88 17:19:15 GMT
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Reply-To: nick@hp-sdd.hp.com.UUCP (Nick Flor)
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In article <484@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
>Definition of Intelligence:
>
>1. Know how to solve problems.

Okay, my calculator (an HP28S) can do this.

>2. Know which problems are unsolvable.

My 28S can do this too.  (It beeps when I ask it to solve an  unsolvable
equation).

>3. Know #1, #2, and #3 defines intelligence.

The only  thing  interesting  about  this last  statement  is that  it's
recursive.  Well...  my 28S can even do recursion.

So, by your  definition, my calculator is  intelligient.  But by current
standards of  intelligience,  it isn't.  Therefore  your  definition  is
wrong.

>"Artificial Intelligence" is an unsolvable problem.

But is the  creation  of  intelligience  an  unsolvable  problem?  
Nah, people make babies all the time.  


Nice try.


Nick
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