--- Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Helen Keller at ~8 didn't have language, as she hadn't > learned sign language and there was no other real > means for her to learn grammar and sentence structure. > Yet she was still clearly intelligent. If Babelfish > was perfect- could pick up on every single grammatical > detail and nuance- would it start learning French > cooking or write a novel or learn how to drive or do > any of that other stuff we associate with > intelligence.
No, but as long as you define intelligence as "exactly like a human" we will never have AGI. I don't care if my calculator doesn't know how many fingers I am holding up. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
