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Do you define human intelligence as the only real intelligence, then? Or are you talking about some super-early primitive predecessor of a brain? (I'm sorry, I
by vintermann 10y ago
Do you define human intelligence as the only real intelligence, then? Or are you talking about some super-early primitive predecessor of a brain? (I'm sorry, I have no idea whether the latter has only evolved once.)
- legutierr 10y agoThat's the real question though, isn't it? I think what we are talking about is the kind of intelligence that could qualify as a "general AI" if implemented in a computer. Although I'm sure that there many different types of intelligence that could match up, in nature there really is only one that we know about.
- vintermann 10y agoI don't think such a thing as general AI, or even general intelligence, is sensible to talk about. There are always tradeoffs: an algorithm good at finding some sort of patterns, necessarily has to be worse at finding other sorts of patterns. There are actually ways to formalize and prove that, but it's intuitively obvious that an algorithm that can find the answer to a set of questions, can't be faster than an algorithm to find the answer to a subset of those questions.