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 Lines: 18 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 -- * Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop * * * * ..{amdahl|decwrl|octopus|pyramid|ucbvax}!avsd.UUCP!childers@tycho * * AMPEX Corporation - Audio-Visual Systems Division, R & D *