Definition: Intelligence

By Jack Krupansky

Intelligence is the capacity of an entity to reason, make plans, carry out plans, acquire knowledge, learn from its environment, manipulate its environment, and interact with other entities within its environment.

We commonly speak of human intelligence and artificial intelligence (or machine intelligence or computational intelligence).

See the Wikipedia article on "intelligence".

See the Merriam-Webster definition of "intelligence".

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