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by AnimalMuppet 585 days ago
No, Pong had "artificial". It did not have "intelligence".

I mean, I guess if you insist on the 1950s definition of AI, perhaps it did. I'm not sure it did even by the 1970s definition, though, and it absolutely did not have it by the 2020s definition.

And if you're going to claim that we should keep using the 1950s definition, well, languages change over time. If you want to communicate with people in the 2020s, use definitions from the 2020s.

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Of course it didn't have intelligence, as I stated - it's artificial.
Artificial not-intelligence is not artificial intelligence.

I don't know why you're defining words the way you are, but it's leading you to an absurd position. As I said elsewhere, if you want to communicate with the rest of us, you need to use the same definitions we do. Otherwise you're talking, not about AI, but about trying to re-define words, and that's a really uninteresting conversation.

Artificial not-intelligence would be an actual intelligence pretending not to be.

Like a cuttlefish disguised as a rock.