ALSO CALLED: Cybernetics, Machine Learning, Machine Intelligence, and AI DEFINITION: An artificial intellect (or "artilect"), according to Dr. Hugo de Garis, is a computer intelligence superior to that of humans in one or more spheres of knowledge together with an implicit will to use the intelligence. Artilects are the concern of artificial intelligence specialists (or "intelligists")
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINITION (continued): … like de Garis, who speculates that human society may soon have to face the question of whether and how we can restrain artificial intelligence from making decisions inimical to humans.
Dr. de Garis assumes that within one or two generations, we will have computers that are more sophisticated than human brains with the ability to experimentally evolve their intelligence into something much beyond what humans might contemplate or understand. de Garis wonders whether such machines would consider … Artificial Intelligence definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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