Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20161109025303/@comment-27306930-20161116040352

Gentlemen, I think you're confusing "intelligence" with "cleverness". The Vulcan tracking system isn't actually intelligent. It's just cleverly programmed by Ms. BrittLiv. It takes action based on what she's told it to do under certain circumstances.

If it was truly intelligent, it would do things like autonomously distinguish between friend and foe, escalate when indefinitive, and evaluate prior experiences when unsure how to proceed.

From my experience as a programmer I can tell you it's often possible to be clever enough to appear to be intelligent. But it's really just rote. We've accounted for nearly every eventuality, and programmed an appropriate response. But that's not intelligence. It's just being thorough.

Can computers be intelligent ??? Yes, I'm sure they can. They call it "The Singularity". But let's be careful what we wish for.