On 31 August 2014 12:29, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > You can remove or distort the meaning of most words if you try hard enough, nevertheless this is a useful distinction. Artificial in this context means "created by humans".
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