Some people have suggested that the Turing Test is chauvinistic: it only recognizes intelligence in things that are able to sustain a conversation with us.
As an added bonus, complimenting a guy for being smart can also be a small boost for yourself, depending on how you phrase your compliment — after all, it takes a smart person to recognize intelligence in another.
Active SETI allows us to shape and construct a message about ourselves and to put that out there in the galaxy in hopes that an alien intelligence may recognize our intelligence and not see us as prey or simply the cat's plaything.
"And I think when Colin Powell went before the United Nations with George Tenet, the director of intelligence, and talked about the intelligence they had in great detail, and then it turned out that stockpiles were not found, that people were cautious and began to recognize that intelligence is intelligence and not necessarily a fact".
Even teachers who recognized his intelligence were exasperated by his hard-edged arrogance.
Despite his reputation, even his harshest critics recognized his intelligence and his ability to discuss controversial matters in an objective and disinterested spirit.
Administration officials said they recognized that intelligence failures related to prewar American claims about Iraq's weapons arsenal could make critics skeptical about the American claims.
Next was a college English professor, Miss Bowen, who recognized the intelligence and talent underlying the dyslexia in an insecure student who would never again consider herself stupid.
The words to songs, however idiosyncratic, do not direct us to recognize an intelligence independent from and outside our own.
Anyone who spent a few minutes with him, much less twelve years under him, was bound to recognize his intelligence, his realism, his self-certainty.
That said, in the current information age, the program also recognizes that intelligence can come from a much wider range of sources than employee insiders.
