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Conversely there are many in the field who are happy to redefine intelligence to be whatever it is that the current crop of AIs can do. However those same peop

• cs702 3y ago
  LOL. Oh yes, that's true: There are a lot of cheerleaders with shiny pom-poms, always chanting and dancing, trying to get others into joining the AI frenzy.
• kelseyfrog 3y ago
  That's a reliable indication that currently intelligence is socially defined. Learning how social definitions replicate, and evolve is going to reveal the levers of change more than debating about definitions themselves. What I'm saying is that social engineering is 90% of the game here.
• pixl97 3y ago
  'redefine intelligence' The particular problem here is both groups are right. Intelligence is a spectrum of behaviors everywhere from the actions of the lowliest single celled organism up to and exceeding human capabilities. The definition with this wide of range is unfortunately practically useless when it comes to narrowing down a multitude of specific behaviors, specifically around the median of human intelligence. It gets more tricky as nothing in the past really got close to human ability so we were never forced to really define what human intelligence is formally. We're going to find the same issues here as we do defining the term life.