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What is Intelligence?
Definitions of Intelligence
- Forrest Gump:
- Intelligent is as intelligent does
- Institutional:
- IQ, as measured by a standardized test
- Gee-wiz:
- Able to perform "hard" tasks, for example, chess
-
Douglas Adams:
- The ability to reconcile contradictory information,
such as simultaneously having a stomach-ache and not having
a stomach-ache, or seeing a real-estate agent wave her fee
[from his Infocom game, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
- Alan Turing:
- The ability to fool us into thinking we're conversing
(over an electronic link) with another human. The
Loebner Prize competition is the first formal instantiation
of Turing's test.
- Robert Franklin, department head at the
Environmental Research Institute
of Michigan (ERIM):
- Intelligence is the ability to pick the appropriate behavior for
situations encountered in an environment.
- My current definition:
- Able to alter one's behavior in order to maximize the opportunities
for reward
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