Richard Loosemore wrote:
Matt Mahoney wrote:
--- Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I wanted was a set of non-circular definitions of such terms as
"intelligence" and "learning", so that you could somehow
*demonstrate* that your mathematical idealization of these terms
correspond with the real thing, ... so that we could believe that
the mathematical idealizations were not just a fantasy.
The last time I looked at a dictionary, all definitions are
circular. So you
win.
Richard, I long ago proposed a working definition of intelligence as
"Achieving complex goals in complex environments." I then went through
a bunch of trouble to precisely define all the component terms of that
definition; you can consult the Appendix to my 2006 book "The Hidden
Pattern"....
Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter have proposed a related definition of
intelligence in a recent paper...
-- Ben G
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