On Aug 6, 10:15 am, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do you define intelligent behaviour? For example in the book
> > Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi, Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: > > Theories, Methods, and Technologies, 2008 > > there is a nice chapter about immune systems. I would say that the behaviour > > of an immune system is very intelligent. What does it mean then? > Definition by example example: at least, the behaviour of a normal > adult human is intelligent, and if a machine can replicate that then > it too is intelligent. If normal adult human can answer yes or no to a question, and a coin can come up with heads to the same question that the person said yes to, that does not mean the coin is intelligent. How many coin flips does it take to match a random person's answers off the street before the coin SEEMS intelligent? The answer is somewhere between one and infinity. How high the number is depends 100% on the observer, who might be convinced after 20 flips that it is a real person's answer but after 40 flips not be so sure, and after 55, 201 be convinced that it is not a real person. How many flips does it take before the coin actually BECOMES intelligent? Neither 1, 0, an integer, or infinity. The answer is: NOT APPLICABLE. A coin isn't intelligent. It's a metal disc. (please interpret ALLCAPS for organization purposes, not for exclamation... a distinction not visible by the appearance of the characters alone, but the overall sense of the comment) Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
