When does artificial intelligence just become intelligence?
When we come to use the word "intelligence" simply to refer to a set of capacities, and when it becomes natural to treat non-biological machines and biological machines indifferently when assessing those capacities. See this week's NEW YORKER for a fascinating article on how that is playing out in the domain of chess. (Tom Mueller, "Your Move: Creating a Better Chess Player, NEW YORKER Dec 12, 2005, pp 62-69)
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