Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
A thermostat is intelligent, in my view, it's just not **very**
intelligent...
The functions a thermostat approximately maximizes are nowhere near as
complex
as the ones a human brain approximately maximizes...
Now there is the problem. I am happy enough to agree that
'intelligence' is such a nebulous concept that there is no clear
dividing line between the intelligence of a human and other kinds of
intelligence.
But if you allow this fact to be used to justify a "joke" definition
that includes thermostats, Furbys and every trivial optimization program
in the universe, then as I said at the beginning of this thread, such a
definition would be pointless.
That definition would be as practical and useful to the AGI building
community as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's definition of an AGI
as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With."
Richard Loosemore.
What's wrong with it is that this definition is so broad that it can
make a thermostat look like it is an intelligent system.
Any definition that classifies thermostats as 'intelligent' is broken.
Anyone can come up with a definition of intelligence that accidentally
encompasses most of the universe, as well as the real intelligences.
The trick is to find a non-circular definition that leaves out the
thermostats, cuddly toys, Conway's Game of Life and the little
program I
once wrote in Fortran that printed out HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Very old argument.
Richard Loosemore.
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