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> What’s “actual AI”

Is Ibn Sina (Avicenna, year ~1000) fine?

> [the higher faculty proper of humans is] the primary function of a natural body possessing organs in so far as it commits acts of rational choice and deduction through opinion; and in so far as it perceives universal matters

Or, "Intelligence is the ability to reason, determining concepts".

(And a proper artificial such thing is something that does it well.)



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