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By that measure of intelligence even most humans, at some times, fail. Our brains misremember constantly, filling in details where information is lacking. One classic example are things like accidents and disasters. Accounts between people conflict, memories presenting events in an order that does not match that another’s memories, our outright fabrications. Dig up research on saccades and how our visual system does this on a constant basis, and can often be fooled as a result.

If knowing which blanks to fill in is a necessary condition of intelligence then all of humanity fails to measure up.

My point here is that very little is simple and straightforward. The concepts we use defy easy definitions. Our application of those concepts to artificial systems will inevitably do the same as a result.



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