The definition of Intelligence


A truly intelligent entity needs to have self-awareness— and external stimuli. True intelligence has everything to do with internal simulation of the environment of a being, artificial or not. And through that simulation the ability to predict the consequences of its actions. An intelligent computer would need to exist inside some environment that was not part of itself; it would have to receive stimuli from that environment, its perception of the environment, and it should be able to influence that environment by means of actions.

Then, when it learns how the stimuli change as a result of its actions it would build up an internal model, as it were, of its environment; enabling itself to predict the consequences of its actions even before actually doing it. I think, that ‘awareness’ here is the awareness of oneself inside this internal simulation; the notion of a ‘self’ and the difference between ones self and the environment.

In this case that is clearly not even remotely the case.

A.I.