(November 4, 2016 at 7:26 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 7:21 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Actually, yes it is. It is precisely what it is about. It is about adapting to an unknown environment. An environment that needs to be sensed. Otherwise you might as well use a look up table.
You think that's what intelligence is?
Sounds to me like you're talking about skill in general.
Intelligence is about speed and depth of comprehension (or in A.I. an artificial simulation of it).
That's a lay person's understanding of intelligence and is a very small proportion of what the brain does.