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>From: reh@wam.umd.edu (Huddleston)
Subject: Re: Defining other intelligence out of existence
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In article <BILL.92Jul18211424@ca3.nsma.arizona.edu> bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>reh@next08pg2.wam.umd.edu (Richard Huddleston) writes:
>
>   How about a much easier approach to this question, only slightly  
>   tongue-in-cheek:
>
>   Intelligence is the ability to be wrong, The more intelligent an organism  
>   or species is, the more capable it is of being wrong, and the more likely  
>   it is that the organism or species is doing something that it can be wrong  
>   about.
>
>Well, if that's what intelligence is, then my simulations are a lot
>more intelligent than I ever realized.
>
>	-- Bill

A typical, modern AI: no sense of humor, and no common sense.

Since you're the one writing wrong simulations, you're the one who's 
intelligent.  I'd guess that you're more intelligent than my cat,
who's capacity for being in error is limited to thinking that a piece
of lint is edible.

But all I'm pointing out is that the exhaustive and endless definitions
as to what intelligence is don't seem to be going anywhere -- and maybe
the problem is in the way the question is being structured.

Maybe I'm wrong, though. :-)!

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