--- 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]

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