ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Audio Book Transcript PERIOD: Pre-Expedition SPEAKER[S]: Strauss, B. [ID: BSTR] TOPIC: On AI, by Dr. Bernard H. Strauss SUMMARY: A partial transcript from On AI, first published in 2472. Audio book read by the author. =================================================================== [BSTR]: What is intelligence? [BSTR]: It is not merely knowledge, or the capacity to contain or quote that knowledge. It has to be more. It is the ability to acquire knowledge, to grasp its ramifications, to transform its data into skills, and to apply those skills effectively with adaptive intent—meaning, the application of reason to deliver a catalyst or response compiled from the collective whole of an individual's acquired experience. [BSTR]: There has long been a focus in the study of Artificial Intelligence on intention—the deployment of a system's gathered knowledge as the core defining trait of intelligence. But what is intent without understanding? [BSTR]: The two, together, rest at the true heart of all endeavors toward the mapping, and further, the crafting of a non-biological intelligence—a genuine mechanical thinking machine. [BSTR]: Intent as a standalone consideration is not enough, as intention can be encoded—actions set in motion by predetermined instruction, engineered call-and-response. A list of tasks to be repeated. A program. In short, intent can be nothing more than the purpose-built illusion of an active, adaptive intellect. Typically, in the form of a product, designed solely for convenience, masquerading as an evolutionary leap in technology. [END TRANSCRIPT] =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]