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Article #8920Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like simulating flying
From: Ken Presting
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 20:53
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 20:53
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In article <1990Feb24.234005.15474@wuche2.wustl.edu> mw@wuche2.UUCP writes: > . . . It is shallow to think that >speed is an *essential* feature of intelligence. >A trivial example: Are you (Roland) really happy or >convince that a small PC machine, which *essentially* computes >even simple multiplication faster than you, an intelligence machine >or it is smarter than you are in this regard. Ooh. Ooh. Another chance to ride my favorite hobby-horse. If we stop trying to define an "essence" for intelligence, and instead define a collection of scales for comparing different aspects of intelligence, we don't have to debate this issue at all! (there are plenty of other things... :-) I propose that one aspect of intelligence is speed.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!amdahl!kp From: kp@uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like simulating flying Summary: Another example of multi-dimensionality in the concept of thought Keywords: Strong AI, Weak AI, methodology, simulating thought Message-ID: <306p024Y8cUy01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 26 Feb 90 20:53:35 GMT References: <13212@cs.yale.edu> <74@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> <1344@oravax.UUCP> <1990Feb24.234005.15474@wuche2.wustl.edu> Reply-To: kp@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 16