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The core of this debate is the matter of what intelligence actually is. We don't really know, but the most common definition I have heard/read is that intelligence is the ability to generate new solutions when presented with previously unseen input. An ABS would not qualify under this definition, because its output is predefined rigorously for all possible combinations of input values.



On the other hand, artificial intelligence is not actual intelligence. The definition of artificial intelligence is the ability to perform a task that would normally require human intelligence. An ABS system would fit into this definition as it is a task that normally would require human sensing the conditions to know how to apply the breaks.

Although I can see why some point out that AI is a moving target, representing only what still seems 'magical'. If you showed an ABS system to someone in the early 1900s, I truly believe they would see it as some kind of intelligence. Now that we have acclimated to the technology, we don't see it the same way.


>The definition of artificial intelligence is the ability to perform a task that would normally require human intelligence.

Do you have any specific sources that define it as that?

>An ABS system would fit into this definition as it is a task that normally would require human sensing the conditions to know how to apply the breaks.

Responding to stimuli does not require any intelligence, let alone human intelligence.


> Do you have any specific sources that define it as that?

Several definitions as provided by a Google Search.

> Responding to stimuli does not require any intelligence, let alone human intelligence.

Which is why we call it artificial intelligence instead of intelligence. If these systems were actually intelligent, there would be no reason to add the artificial moniker. We specifically call the types of systems artificial intelligence on recognition that it is not actually what we consider real intelligence.

I agree, there is nothing intelligent about an ABS system, and nobody is labeling it as intelligent.


"Artificial" is opposed to "natural", not "genuine". It's a synonym of "machine intelligence". It's a comment on the fact that the intelligence has been artificially created in a machine. It is not in any way about the current capabilities of artificial intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

> Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.


>I agree, there is nothing intelligent about an ABS system, and nobody is labeling it as intelligent.

Artificial intelligence is intelligence, just made artificially instead of organically. You clearly have no understanding of the term so you should probably shut up.




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