Walter Sinnott Armstrong with my favorite definition of Artificial Intelligence:

“It occurs whenever a machine learns something.”

Because learning involves intelligence.

Often, in AI systems, the machine is given a certain goal and it learns new and better means to achieve that goal. That’s when artificial intelligence occurs.

I like it because it’s hard to move the goal posts on (the old saw that “ai is anything computers can’t do yet” comes to mind).

& because it isn’t rooted in human-centric thinking. So much of AGI discourse is an ego trip.

This definition of intelligence can apply to any species or system.

It also leaves room for curiosity and consciousness as differentiators across species and silicon.

via Philosophy Bites