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Comment by josharsh | Hacker News Reader

what really is intelligence?

Intelligence would be, having voted for the mango Mussolini three times against your own interests, that you’d wake up and change your vote the fourth time.

Super Intelligence would be not having voted for him at all.

The ability to process information, draw conclusions, and choose a course of action to achieve a goal.

I'm proud to claim that I wrote that before the idea of "agents" was invented.

process information and generate an output is really enough. A calculator is mentioned in Wikipedia as being an AI technology, and we feared students would no longer learn and understand calculus and the people who worked as Computers at companies would lose that job. Only one of both came true, and the math nerds still get a job at different tasks with a different title.

Okay, now no one can add numbers at scale since Excel exists and calculates at the accuracy limits of a counter-top calculator. But in theory, spreadsheets can be intelligent solving tools.

It's the drawing of conclusions where I see the intelligence. The other two steps are the input and output mechanisms - I deliberately avoided the mention of what sensors would be used or how the actions would be carried out.

A calculator does not draw conclusions. Neither does excel - it just passes variables through a tree of if and while statements - the developer drew the conclusions when he wrote the excel formulae. Same with e.g. a PERL script.

The ability to create models based on observations and then use those models to make predictions.

an engineered concept

An observed concept.

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