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From: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 27 Nov 88 22:07:50 GMT
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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

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