Comment author: Martin_Freedman 28 October 2008 05:44:34PM 3 points [-]

Eliezer

One of your best ever posts IMHO and right on the nail. Of course this might be because I already agree with this definition but I left AI years ago, long before blogging and never wrote something like this up nor would I have said it so eloquently if I had.

Thom Blake 'goal-directed adaptive behaviour' is quite different and specifically it does not capture the notion of efficiency - of doing more with less.