From: utzoo!watmath!rggoebel
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Computer intelligence?
Article-I.D.: watmath.4346
Posted: Sat Jan 15 11:19:49 1983
Received: Sun Jan 16 08:06:12 1983
References: eagle.727

  You've got to be kidding?  A controller, or any other device, is hardly
more ``intelligent'' because it's more like a computer.  I suspect you've
been reading too many advertisements in Datamation or something?  Intelligence
is based on knowledge and its application...despite philosophical problems
with the concept of knowledge, anthropomorphizing gives us `quick and dirty'
ways of describing machine (or any other purposive) behaviour.  My television
certainly `knows' more about video broadcast frequencies than your computer;
I guess that means it's intelligent because it's less like a computer?