Doug Hofstadter annoyed me in GEB by persistently equating AI with being able to write a sonnet, which I can't do to save my life 
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GEB also equates intelligence with Grandmaster chess playing. One time a toy chess computer beat me in two moves
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Asserting that a chess AI would have to be strong AI is one thing. It was the Eighties, and AI is hard to predict. But...
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...asserting that a chess AI would have to be strong AI less than one page after talking about a world champion checkers program?
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Anyway my point is that it's insanely easy to concoct a definition of (artificial) intelligence which excludes nearly all humans
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