>> What about a brain damaged person with alzeihmers? At the risk of being politically incorrect, on a bad day -- pretty much unintelligent (though still capable to some degree)
>> A savant that can be trained to water the flowers in a garden? eh cant do >> anything else btu this one function, but he can look and tell if they need >> water, and which ones to water, and can accept instruction.. I think that is >> still intelligentn behavior, but is extremely limited. Exactly as you say. Intelligent -- but limited intelligence. >> Dogs can be trained to rescue or so search out drugs, which is intelligent, >> but a narrow usage. OK. >> Expert systems are quite smart in their domains, But, unless they learn, not intelligent. >> and thermostats have a range of intelligence. Nope. They can't learn. >> High-level or approaching human level intelligence is what most of us are >> all concerned with here, but I think in defining intelligence we have to be >> able to look all the way up and down the range that it offers and recognize >> these as having intelligence. I cut off the range with learning. It's not clear to me where you cut off the range but if you include thermostats, I think you're going too far. :-) >> If you don't call a thermostat intelligent, then you have to in some other >> way define what it does, either by saying its an object that "makes >> decisions based on input" or "simply programmed" or whatnot, these all boil >> down and start looking like our various intelligence definitions, "accept >> input, make decisions, give output, try to reach a goal" All of your definitions for the thermometer are fine but since my definition of intelligence says "speed of learning" and it doesn't learn, it ain't intelligent. >> Anything lacking one of those 4 components I might not think of as >> intelligent. Except that I make it 5 components (and that last component -- learning -- pretty much sums up the difference between our definitions). ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
