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Subject: Re: My definition of intelligence
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In article <hb4n6km.stas@netcom.com> stas@netcom.com (Stanislav Malyshev) writes:
>From: stas@netcom.com (Stanislav Malyshev)
>Subject: Re: My definition of intelligence
>Date: 19 Sep 92 07:46:40 GMT

>In article <1992Sep9.032813.19773@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>>   Intelligence is a qualitative assessment of something regarding the
>>complexity of its behavior.  Nothing more, nothing less.  No sudden emergence,
>>no lights turning on, no POOF I'm alive!
>>
>>   It's an attribute that can apply to problem solving behavior.  You can say,
>>for instance, this is an intelligent problem solver.  It could apply to
>>navigation, then you'd have an intelligent navigator in direct proportion to
>>the intricacy of its operation.  It could apply to language, you could then
>>be referring to the intelligent use of language.
>>

>The best analysis should indicate intelligence then, not the intricacy
>of the process, though the two often go together.

>>
>>   It also implies simplicity.  For instance, a naive or "simple" proof
>>generator would appear to be textbookish and would be producing oversized
>>output.  An intelligent proof generator operates in a far less naive and far
>>more intricate manner than thus will almost always produce correspondingly
>>more concise proofs.
>>
>>    So in cases like that conciseness is the hallmark of intelligence.  Thus,
>>for example, the more intelligently written machine program is the smaller and
>>simpler one.


>Perhaps it's better to say that a system that achieves its goals in a prompt
>and sensible manner is more intelligent than one that does not.  (In this
>case we'd have to consider the 'goodness' of the goals too, for we don't
>want them to be simplistic though easily achieved.)

>Intelligence should be related to the goodness of the analysis you mentioned
>in the beginning... I imagine concise proofs would follow as a result
>of clearer understanding that better analysis would provide.

>And speaking of program sizes and their complexity, a counter-example that
>comes to mind is the bunch of matrix-multiplication algorithms that outperform
>the algorithm that uses the "natural" and simple way of multiplying matrices
>considerably.  The standard one is _theta(n^3)_, and the fastest one is
>somewhere around _theta(n^2.3)_ or so.  Of course, the faster algorithms are
>bigger and are more complex.  
>This doesnt have anything to do with intelligence in general, only with that
>of the authors.  But I thought I'd mention it in any case.

>Cheers,

>Stan
>-- 

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This would seem to mean that there is an irremediable and irreducible 
element of valuation in the very idea of intelligence?  
 
What makes one being "more intelligent" than another? 

	1. The power to attain one's goals or ends, i.e.,
	   who makes the fewest mistakes in the selection
	   of means to attain one's ends, i.e., selects the
	   "best" means to attain those ends.	 

	2. Solves [overcomes] problems most efficiently, most speedily,
	   with least cost.

Which one do you like the best here, and what is the most salient 
difference you see between these two?	   
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