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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: Things I never thought would appear
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 06:55:15 -0400
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On 10/11/24 12:27 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> 
> Am I the only one here who is annoyed by the use of "AI" to mean
> anything other than human-level (or better) machine intelligence?

My definition of "artificial intelligence" is something a computer does 
which a lot of people think only humans should be able to do. This 
criterion shifts over time.

I don't think "human-level machine intelligence" is meaningful, because 
computation to carry out tasks and cognition to further the existence of 
a living organism aren't commensurable. The measure of human 
intelligence has little to do with, for example, how many digits of pi 
we can calculate in an hour.

-- 
Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com