AI 2 - Defining Intelligence

Cyber
Society

AI 2 - Defining Intelligence

Objectives/ Standards/ Skills

Students will:
•Read about the historical debates on the
meaning of artificial intelligence, and how
definitions of intelligence have changed over
time.
•Debate and gain a clearer understanding of the
difference between the terms ‘intelligence’ and
‘knowledge,’ and why those distinctions matter
in the current discourse on artificial intelligence.
•Discuss the ways people have understood
intelligence in both people and in machines.

Materials

•Judith V. Grabiner article “Artificial Intelligence:
Debates about Its Use and Abuse.” found at

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315
086084900296

•Alistair MacFarlane article “Information,
Knowledge & Intelligence.” found at

https://philosophynow.org/issues/98/Information_Kno
wledge_and_Intelligence

Multiple Choice

Which basic concept "decides?"

• Informtion

• Intelligence

• Knowledge

• AI

Multiple Choice

Which basic concept "describes?"

• Informtion

• Intelligence

• Knowledge

• AI

Multiple Choice

Which basic concept "prescribes?"

• Informtion

• Intelligence

• Knowledge

• AI

Multiple Choice

__________ is a meaningful, shareable pattern.

• Informtion

• Intelligence

• Knowledge

• AI

Multiple Choice

The ______ is the basic unit of

measurement of information.

• giga

• bit

• mega

Multiple Choice

According to Plato, __________ is justified true

belief, and this was also the view of many

philosophers until recently.

• information

• intelligence

• knowledge

Multiple Choice

__________ is the ability to cope with

unpredictable circumstances.

• information

• intelligence

• knowledge

Multiple Choice

Every person hs a natural intelligence.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

There will be an ever-increasing __________ gap

between human and machine.

• information

• intelligence

• knowledge

Multiple Choice

Our ultimate challenge

will be how to further develop such

technology, but not to learn how to live with this in

a new form of society.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Related Lessons

•Cyber Ethics - Digital Technology, Harms, and
Trust