Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!ames!eugene From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Minsky's definition of AI (really definition of I) Message-ID: <1234@ames.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 17:41:50 EST Article-I.D.: ames.1234 Posted: Sat Nov 2 17:41:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:34:23 EST References: <162@cvaxa.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 14 Interesting posting. I'm not doing AI work, but I have something to share. Two weeks ago on the plane down to JPL/Caltech, I read a very interesting definition of "Intelligence" in the airline's magazine (PSA). Intelligence is the ability to simultaneously hold two contradictory thoughts in one's head. I am working on parallelism, and I sort of like that definition. From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,decwrl,allegra}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb