wsaba@CS.UWindsor.Ca (Walid Saba) (03/18/91)
The discussion on what is the favourite defintion of AI keeps raging, and I thought I would say a word. I do not exactly believe there is artificial vs natural intelligence, either you have intelligence or you do not! What exactly do we mean when we say natural intelligence anyway? Is it the intelligence we were born with (thank you Lord...). There is no such thing. Human intelliegnce is also sort of `manufactured', designed, programmed, guided, trained, and so on. This is the idea. The human mind is also programmed, and it so dynamic that it keeps updating its HUGE knowledge base, and knowledge processing unit (the big software: the MIND). So, is AI the same thing, except that we do not know (yet) how to simulate the amazing program that humans have... What if at one point we had a truley intelliegnt program, is it than appropraite to call it `artificial'. What is natural and artificial in this case does not apply. Either we have intelliegnce, or we do don't. This is just my view. W. Saba -----