March 2008
2 posts
Six levels of intelligence
Stupid: This is where you are passively taking everything in without associating, interpreting or thinking about it. Bright: This is where you begin seeing the associations and relationships of whatever you are taking in. Smart: After seeing the associations between things, this is where you begin to predict outcomes by combining those associations in such a way as to get desired results. Here we...
To be intelligent is to make mistakes
Machines that behave unpredictably tend to be viewed as malfunctioning, unless we are playing games of chance. Alan Turing, namesake of the infallible, deterministic, Universal machine, recognized (in agreement with Richard Foreman) that true intelligence depends on being able to make mistakes. “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent,” he argued in...