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lost-found | karma 112 | avg karma 2.67 · 2021-10-21 11:55:15

When young children start recognizing shapes, animals, colors, etc, you don’t consider that a sign of intelligence? What is it a sign of then?

CyberDildonics | karma 3006 | avg karma 0.57 · 2021-10-21 18:44:41

A three year old child is already generally far beyond what any software can do.

drpixie | karma 1280 | avg karma 2.94 · 2021-10-21 19:30:07

I certainly consider that exemplar child intelligent. I'm happy to consider my pet dogs intelligent - some more than others:). And they are all leagues ahead of any "artificial" systems we've got.

And sorry, I don't have a definition of intelligence - but that's exactly the point. However I would require any definition of intelligence to include flexibility, self-awareness, world-modelling, curiousity, and goal setting.

Flexibility is surely one of the things that distinguishes a chess machine (or chatbot, or image recognition) from a child or a dog - the latter recognise and adapt to new situations & environments. Self-awareness seems a requirement for own goal-setting. Curiousity and world-modelling go together, and world-modelling is presumably required for exploring own goal-setting (a random walk is not intelligence).

All these things are so many worlds distant from google lens, or Big Blue.

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