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Re:Ask YC: AI by downer on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @03:38AM (#91078)
> we are actually trying to define intelligence through IQ tests, for example

Fail. IQ tests only measure how well you do on IQ tests.

> The problem here is that not every human being is intelligent

Unless they're in a vegetative state, they are more intelligent than any artificial system, so far.

> Is that the way you formulate tasks for software engineers?

The only way to make a specification so precise that it does exactly what you want is to implement it, and then the code itself becomes the specification.

Re:Ask YC: AI by mojuba on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @05:13AM (#91100)
So, what you mean by saying something is more intelligent than something else? What criteria are you using to evaluate that?

And yes, it's the way programming works - when you know what you are trying to achieve. Software is about input and output and unless they are deterministic, you can't write code.

Re:Ask YC: AI by downer on Friday December 21, 2007 @02:07AM (#91690)
> So, what you mean by saying something is more intelligent than something else?

Obviously people say that all the time despite our lack of a definition for exactly what it is, so we apparently don't need an exact definition.

> and unless they are deterministic, you can't write code.

You might be interested to know that the behavior of your OS isn't deterministic once you add a second CPU.