Homeostasis is core to intelligence

You cannot have an intelligence being without the organism being able to control for homeostasis. Homeostasis means “the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.” All organisms live and survive by the actions they do in their environment to maintain homeostasis. For a living organism, homeostasis means… Continue reading Homeostasis is core to intelligence

To avoid

The definition of avoid means to “stay away from something”. Usually one avoids something so as to not encounter pain or some kind of negative effect. All organisms do some kind of avoiding, for example avoiding being killed, attacked, or eaten in order to survive. To avoid is an action verb, where the subject moves… Continue reading To avoid

The Turing test is the best and worst artificial intelligence test we’ve got

There has been a lot of debate on whether the Turing test is a good test of artificial intelligence. The good Without having a formal definition of intelligence, Alan Turing created a test using the closest thing we could use to evaluate computers, humans. A computer talking to a human via a terminal is a… Continue reading The Turing test is the best and worst artificial intelligence test we’ve got