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Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by cwyers on Saturday January 02, 2016 @12:08AM (#10825146)
Or it could be, a system capable of reasoning its way to doing X would be intelligent, but you can also teach to the test, so to speak, and build a system that does X without being generalizable and thus satisfy X without being intelligent.
Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by gnaritas on Sunday January 03, 2016 @01:13PM (#10831526)
> Or it could be, a system capable of reasoning its way to doing X would be intelligent, but you can also teach to the test, so to speak, and build a system that does X without being generalizable and thus satisfy X without being intelligent.

Which is exactly what we do with many kids today; makes you wonder how many times we might invent AI and not know it because we don't raise it correctly so it appears too dumb to be considered a success.

Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by dllthomas on Saturday January 02, 2016 @02:18AM (#10825423)
That's sort of where a lot of people have arrived, to be sure, with distinguishing the notion of an "artificial general intelligence" from other things in the AI bucket.