Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2712 talk.philosophy.misc:1629 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!dukeac!sbigham From: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Message-ID: <1130@dukeac.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 88 22:07:50 GMT References: <1967@xyzzy.UUCP> <1972@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham) Organization: Academic Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC Lines: 15 In article <1972@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes: >I've heard mazerunners define intelligence as the ability to learn. Place >motivated rats, dogs, humans, .... in a maze and see how many trials it >takes for them to learn the maze. Just one problem. The computer you're reading this article on can learn the maze in -one- trial, and I don't think anyone would call it intelligent. sbigham -- Scott Bigham "The opinions expressed above are Internet sbigham@dukeac.ac.duke.edu (c) 1988 Hacker Ltd. and cannot be USENET sbigham@dukeac.UUCP copied or distributed without a ...!mcnc!ecsgate!dukeac!sbigham Darn Good Reason."