On 06/07/06, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:58:28 -500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That just gets you a circular definition: if intelligence is the ability to
self-improve, what counts as improvement? Change in the direction of greater
intelligence? But then what's intelligence? Etc.
Basically the problem with all this is that there's no such thing as
intelligence in the sense of a mathematical property of an algorithm.
I would agree with you here.
Intelligence is an informal term for certain types of effectiveness of an
algorithm in carrying out tasks in an environment. So the first thing you
need to do is figure out what sort of environments you want your AI system
to work in, and what sort of tasks you want it to carry out.
How would you define the sorts of tasks humans are designed to carry
out? I can't see an easy way of categorising all the problems
individual humans have shown there worth at, such as key-hole surgery,
fighter piloting, cryptography and quantum physics.
I'm not saying a human is a general purpose problem solver, just that
humans seem to have the ability to mold themselves to many different
tasks, that do not seem to be genetically specified.
Will Pearson
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