On: Machine intelligence (2015)

[senectus1]

I still have not seen anyone adequately explain what "intelligence" actually is.

So if we dont know, or cant agree what it is... how can we be claiming what we've created is artificial?

[pixl97 → senectus1]

This is a particular misnomer.

An excavator is a superhuman digger.

A calculator is a superhuman adder.

Both of these things are obviously artificial.

We can measure individual facets of intelligence too. It gets much more complicated when talk about 'general' intelligence and spectrums of intelligence and how they interact with each other.

[senectus1 → pixl97]

no thats ridiculous. They're not human.

You might as well call a stick a superhuman poker.

[naasking → senectus1]

> I still have not seen anyone adequately explain what "intelligence" actually is.

A formal definition would be useful, but not strictly necessary. "More capable at task X", where X can range over all non-physical/information processing tasks is sufficient.