The Intelligent Use of Intelligent Systems

There is one main problem in defining what an intelligent system is: there are no good definitions of intelligence. There is generally more agreement on the behaviours referred to by the term (the phenomenology of intelligence) than there is on how they can be interpreted or categorised. In psychology, intelligence can be defined either as the general cognitive ability underlying all processes of complex reasoning, or as the performance on tests of intelligence - to mention two extremes. It is therefore not sufficient to define an intelligent system with reference to human intelligence. An alternative is to focus on the salient aspects of intelligent performance and refer to a cognitive system as follows [1]:

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