[net.ai] Slow intelligence/chess

SLOAN%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA (11/02/83)

lligence is
coupled with the environment, and involves a speed factor (you must
respond in "real-time" - whatever that happens to mean.)  It also
speaks to the question of "loop-avoidance": in the real world, you
can't step in the same stream twice; you must muddle through, ready or
not.
  To me, this suggests that all intelligent behavior consists of
generating crude, but feasible solutions to problems very quickly (so
as to be ready with a response) and then incrementally improving the
solution as time permits.  In an ever changing environment, it is
better to respond inadequately than to ponder moot points.
-Ken Sloan