[comp.ai.digest] Silly Discussion

SHERRARD%CODSD1@eg.ti.COM (04/14/88)

	I seems to me to be silly to discuss things like "when a computer
passes the Turing test it will be intelligent."  Intelligence is not
a binary, you have it or you don't thing.  It is all a matter of degree.

	I agree with Caroline Knight on her comment about a machine
having the human qualities of arrogance, ignorance and the like.  For
the rest of you (Rob Wald), that believe a 'test' is required to solve
the have intelligence vs. the not have intelligence, I suggest you ask
a third grader if it takes any intelligence to multiply and divide.

	If you look at intelligence the way I do you will see how
far we have come in creating machine intelligence.

-jeff sherrard