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If a chimp could play the game of go at the same level as humans, would we say the chimp had intelligence? When you base your definition of intelligence on sample size of 1 (humans), but can't even define within that context, you get these kinds of problems. Is platypus a mammal or not? Does the classification change the function? Are all humans intelligent or posses natural intelligence? Is there a degree of intelligence? i.e. are some humans in possession of more intelligence than others?

I look at artificial intelligence as an umbrella term which has varying meaning depending on context. If you classify a task as needing intelligence to solve and someone finds a piece of code to do it, you have an artificial intelligence there. You can keep moving the goal post but it's only nuances and definition.



There are problems where humans need to use intelligence, but which are amenable to brute-force computing - chess is an example - and that does not, in my view, make brute-force computing class as intelligence. It does not accord with what the term AI originally meant, and the first moving of the goal post was to apply it to these cases.




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