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From: mdennehy@unix2.tcd.ie (Sparks)
Subject: Re: Learning
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References: <1994Mar26.222100.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> <2n6vb8$nfn@rc1.vub.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 19:11:49 GMT
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In <2n6vb8$nfn@rc1.vub.ac.be> Jurgen Van Gorp <jvgorp@vnet3.vub.ac.be> writes:

>In article <1994Mar26.222100.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> ,
>jcarnice@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
>>	is trying to program knowledge into it.  It's not true if he's trying,
>>	instead, to program learning into it.  A thing that can learn can
>>	increase its knowledge.

[munch]

>Can man make a robot that is more intelligent than himself ? We can
>produce machines that can calculate a lot faster than we can already.  If
>we would be able to program "intelligence" into a computer, no doubt that
>very soon there would be computers that are a lot more intelligent than
>humans.

Hang on ... does that mean that intelligence is a function of speed ?
i.e., if two people <totally isolated from one another> solve the same
problem with the same solution, but one person does so faster, is that
person therefore more intelligent ? (not a challenging question, more a
question from a total newbie)

Newbie shutting up now ...
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