X-Message-Number: 5883
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:07:36 -0800
From: John K Clark <>
Subject: Intelligence

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In  #5877   (Thomas Donaldson) On Mon, 4 Mar 1996 Wrote:




                >On the issue of "intelligence", whatever it may be, it seems
                
                >to me that in order for anyone to design a machine which will
                
                >be "intelligent" the first thing they will need is some better
                                >idea of just what "intelligence" is to mean.
                   

I don't think Michelangelo knew exactly what beauty was, he
didn't have a good  definition, yet he made beautiful objects.
I'll bet you don't have a good  definition of "elegance", I know
I don't know exactly what it is, but I'm certain you've read
mathematical proofs and computer programs that both of us would
consider elegant. It wouldn't even surprise me if you'd written
a few yourself.
                    


                >when has it happened that someone has come to you and asked
                
                >you to write a program to do X, and you ask them to be more
                
                >precise about what  X is, and the only thing they can say to
                                >you is that if your program does X they will know it?



Sounds like a job for a neural net, something that works by
example and rules of thumb not by definitions and rigid rules.



               >Kasparov was responsible for defeating Deep Blue's designers.
               

Deep Blue may no be quite good enough to defeat Kasparov, yet,
but it is good  enough to routinely beat Deep Blue's designers.
Who gets the credit for the machines victory in this case, the
loosing party? It seems to me that both sides should play by the
same rules. If Kasparov deserves the credit when  he wins then 
Deep Blue should get the credit when it does the same thing.



                                           John K Clark      

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