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>From: marky@z.eecs.umich.edu (Mark Anthony Young)
Subject: Re: What is really AI?
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%r danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught)
>In article <92254.103730KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET> KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET (Jon L. Campbell) writes:
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>[stuff deleted]
>>    The brain is a component of AI, insomuch that it is a dependent
>>peice of hardware that requires a certain amount of input before a
>>decision can be made -- be it the right decision or not is not
>>important. 
>
>Whoa!  The brain is a component of RI - Real Intelligence.  :-)

The appropriate contrast to artificial intelligence is not "real" intelligence,
but "natural" intelligence (which is what the brain (or the bearer of the brain) 
has.

The contrast to "real intelligence" would be "phony intelligence", which is, as
I understand Harnad, what you get when you have a machine that is Turing
indistinguishable from a human, and yet somehow disconnected from the world.

...mark young


