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For context, the first mechanical computer (that could do integer addition, subtraction, multiplication) was designed and built by Pascal in the 1640s. There was no concept of computer or artificial intelligence when Descartes was writing these lines.
What Descartes is explaining in this quote is that it's flexibility, adaptability, generality that define intelligence: an "idiot savant" AI may perform specific tasks better that humans, but it doesn't generalize to new tasks, which reveals its lack of intelligence/understanding
This shows greater clarity of thought than a number of 20th century AI researchers
I'm hesitant to comment since I'm entirely a layperson here, but human cognition does seem to be composed of a large number of subroutines with very specific focuses. Sorry. Much respek.
Descartes would have opinioned differently had he been in today's times. :)
humans not immune from this. every system has limits. do you suppose that intelligence is irreducible? that we won’t be able to form “committees of networks” that get at all sides of a concept? that will have methods of extrapolation? intelligence is that grand? we will.
What offers the question if we can attribute the term intelligence to artificial at all? Artificial logic perhaps describing the now better than betting on an artificial future;
I would have to disagree. He is saying that the machines of his time do not do what they do because they understand what they do. That's all he's saying, don't extrapolate anything beyond that.
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