Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!don From: don@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: <7749@klaatu.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <193600002@trsvax> Date: 29 Nov 88 21:47:00 GMT References: <7749@klaatu.rutgers.edu> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:klaatu.rutgers.edu:7749:trsvax:193600002:000:836 Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!don Nov 29 15:47:00 1988 > Intelligence is the capacity to do actions, make statements, > exercise judgement, believe knowledge, and pay attention. >--JoSH Let's see now, my computer can do actions (such as print a file), make statements (it tells me when some command is illegal), exercise judgment (isn't that what a conditional jump means?), believe knowledge (I've got several files of "knowledge" on my hard disk), and pay attention (it waits at the command line for an infinite amount of time until I'm ready to tell it something). I've never thought of my MS-DOS machine as intelligent until now :-) I think your definition is not a good working definition for intelligence, at least not in the AI domain. Don Subt The opinions expressed above are Tandy Corp. strictly mine, not my employer's. 817-390-3068 ...!killer!ninja!sys1!trsvax!don