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In article <952@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten) writes:
:But it might be possible to describe a property which I might call
:"absolute intelligence".  This could be described by something like
:this:
:
:  1. A set of rules, like "if big angry man coming towards me
:     then run away";
:  2. A machine to apply these rules to input data, resulting
:     in output data and/or actions.
:
:Of course, ai languages like prolog use this kind of data
:representation, but they don't seem to be as successful as humans.

The problem with these if .... then .... constructions is obviously that
they fail to achieve the necessary adaptability that humans have. When
something unexpected happens, a human *magically* knows the context or
'frame' which to adapt. This is of course related to experience and
knowledge about reality, but humans also seem to have the ability to
draw conclusions *very* heuristically...to err is human... It is not
clear to me whether the AI people are trying to make an intelligent machine or
a machine whose behaviour resembles that of human beings..:-)

The goal seems to run away every time we try to grasp it...I think it
only goes to show that trying to break 'intelligence' into discrete
areas is not very fruitful. Intelligence is more than the sum of the 
features/abilities that are parts of it.

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Kari Grano				University of Helsinki, Finland
email to: grano@cs.helsinki.fi		Department of CS