What kind of intelligence is "artificial intelligence"? (original) (raw)

In this article I carry a study of some comparative terms that aim to help narrowing down the meaning of "intelligence". I proceed by looking back to the tradition that actually produced the term "intelligence" itself, acknowledging that it is a term that has been suitable for integrating the acts of a kind of agent, a mind that interprets and knows itself while knowing, and as the operations and functions of intelligent beings. With such a battery of meanings, a more integrated view of intelligence emerges, and hence sheds light about what kind of intelligence is the artificial one. This view is a cornerstone to understanding the problems of purely functional and psychological conceptions of intelligence, and hence we have been able to interpret to what extend we can properly use "artificial intelligence" in a proper sense.