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It depends on how you want to define intelligence, right?
And for that, we need to define intelligence.
Plant neurobiologists have chosen to define intelligence democratically, as an ability to solve problems or, more precisely, to respond adaptively to circumstances, including ones unforeseen in the genome.
In 1950, Alan Turing, already famous for helping to crack the German Enigma code during World War II, devised the Turing test to define intelligence in machines.
How "smart" a smartwatch appears to the wearer depends on how you define "intelligence" - is displaying notifications and simple apps enough, or does it have to learn from the wearer's routines and actions?
Theory's such as Gardners with "Multiple Intelligences has come a great to help define intelligence and has give in everyone a level playing field, unlike the bell curve that ridiculed ethic minorties and women.
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It was a good school but it was of its time, in that it defined intelligence very narrowly.
The second category, less brain-bound and metaphysical, stresses behavior, defining intelligence as the ability to respond in optimal ways to the challenges presented by one's environment and circumstances.
Turing defined intelligence functionally, in the sense that for him anything that possessed the ability to transform information from one form into another, as the Turing machine does, counted as intelligent to some degree.
It's difficult to say whether we've made any serious progress in defining intelligence over the last 3,000 years.
Wechsler (1944) defined intelligence as the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment.
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