> What is it we call intelligent?
> Intelligence is a kind of rapid adaption and coping to environmental change.
Who's the "we", there ? I have absolutely never heard anything remotely close to the definition of intelligence given there
> Intelligence is a kind of rapid adaption and coping to environmental change.
Who's the "we", there ? I have absolutely never heard anything remotely close to the definition of intelligence given there
I take the A to apply to the I, ie., AI is artificially Intelligent. Its not actually intelligent.
We didnt arrive at a notion of intelligent via digital computers. We have been talking about it for thousands of years, at least.
I am talking about the pretheoretical, intuitive notion of intelligence that doesn't prejudge the question of AI. What is it we call intelligent?
Intelligence is a kind of rapid adaption and coping to environmental change. It's a way of being responsive to an environment. Its a kind of radical underminism of response: a thermometer's response is determined. An animal, in having reasons to do things, is radically under-determined.
And thus, in acquriing specific hisotries, animals bring their own reasons to environemnts, and thus are able to cope with a vast amount of sudden change that would, eg., destroy a thermometer.
And what we are concerned with, both with real AI, and with animals is systems which are in the world with us, in this way: that are likewise radically able to cope.