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I would consider evolution a form of intelligence, even though I wouldn't consider nature a being. There's a branch of AI research I was briefly working in 15

• fl7305 1y ago
  (non-sarcastically from me this time) Sure, I would agree with that wording. In the same way, neural networks which are trained to do a task could be said to be "designed" to do something. In my view, there's a big difference in what the training data is for a neural network, and what the neural network is "designed" for. We can train a network using word completion examples, with the intent of designing it for intelligence.
  • fhd2 1y ago
    Yup. To counter my own points a bit: I could also argue that the word "design" has a connotation strictly opposing emergent behaviour like evolution, as in the intelligent design "theory". So not the best word to use perhaps. And in your example, just because we made a system that exhibits emergent behaviour to some degree, we can't assume it can "design" intelligence the way evolution did, on a much, much shorter timeline, no less.