> On 31 Aug 2014, at 9:04 am, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be absolutely clear - the "Artificial" in AI refers to the machine which > hosts the intelligence, not to the intelligence itself.
How can anything be "artificial"??????? What in fact does this word mean? The loose way in which we use this word suggests that whatever is deemed "artificial" is somehow an order of "real" that is less than real, or, in some sense "missing some ingredient X which takes it from vaguely unreal -> real. "Artifice" = clever or cunning devices and expedients. Nature does that all the time. Nothing is artificial, nothing. And I mean that substantively. Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
