Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!vsi1!octopus!avsd!childers
From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Definition of 'Intelligence'
Keywords: mistakes, pattern recognition
Message-ID: <303@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 23:28:56 GMT
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Followup-To: comp.ai
Organization: AMPEX Corporation, Redwood City, CA
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Someone said recently that intelligence was 'the ability to make mistakes'.

I think that should be modified to 'the ability to make mistakes AND the
complementary ability to recognize them as mistakes' ( which brings in the
whole host of unpalatable issues, like goal-setting, quantifying qualities
and other handling of abstractions, ugh ) ...

This isn't a new idea, though. Just forgotten and / or neglected.

-- richard


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