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by sacado2 895 days ago
The issue is that intelligence itself is an ill-defined concept, and an unofficial but broadly-shared rough definition is "what separates humans (and some animals) from unanimated things". So, as soon as a machine can do something (whether it's having good memory, proving things, playing chess, translating texts, drawing a picture, driving a car, anything) it no longer belongs to "intelligence". Using that very definition, AI is an oxymoron.
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Amusingly, there's part of the commercial AI community that wants to define intelligence as what companies will pay humans sitting at desks to do.