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by LatteLazy 1102 days ago
Your first definition would include Wikipedia (or even a printed encyclopedia or other reference material, technically it would include a tape-measure, sorry.). Is Wikipedia intelligent? It is likely both Artificial and General so I think we are there, Skynet is upon us and it is user editable!

This is the difficulty of any definition of intelligence: it fails as soon as it is applied...

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Those things you mentioned are not “mitigating” in the verb sense, the intelligence USES those things to INTELLIGENTLY mitigate “uncertainties”.

If you cannot see Wikipedia and a tape-measure as both the product and resources of intelligence, you’re failing yourself somehow.

The definition I have given remains superior!

Btw, information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information.

You can see how these simple truths interrelate.