Pei, No. To me that is not intelligence, though it works even better.
This seems to me to be very divergent from the usual meaning of the word intelligence. It opens up the possibility that a super computer that is able to win a Nobel prize by running a somewhat efficient AI algorithm could be less intelligent than a basic pocket calculator that is solving optimization problems in a very efficient way. It seems to me that what you are defining would be better termed "intelligence efficiency" rather than "intelligence".
Let is also why I think the definition of intelligence in psychology cannot be directly accepted in AI. For human beings, problem-solving ability at a certain age can be used approximately to indicate the learning ability of a system (person),
I don't see this. Unless they are designed to be highly culture neutral, such as a Raven test, IQ tests usually test for knowledge as well as problem solving. In this way they can estimate how well the individual was able to learn in the past. They don't need to have the test in mind, indeed, but how can you
justify the authority and fairness of the testing results, if many systems are not built to achieve what you measure?
I don't see that as a problem. By construction universal intelligence measures how well a system is able to act as an extremely general purpose problem solver (roughly stated). This is what I would like to have, and so universal intelligence is a good measure of what I am interested in achieving. I happen to believe that this is also a decent formalisation of the meaning of "intelligence" for machines. Some systems might be very good at what they have been designed to do, but what I want to know is how good are they as a general purpose problem solver? If I can't give them a problem, by defining a goal for them, and have them come up with a very clever solution to my problem, they aren't what I'm interested in with my AI work. Shane ----- 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
