Difference between revisions of "Talk:Sapience"

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question: what's the relationship between sapience and artificial intelligence? --User:DreadPirateRobert

I would venture that intelligence is the capacity to learn, while sapience is the ability to independently act on acquired knowledge (self-motivation). --Ted C 19:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, so Data and C-3PO would be sapient, while Daystrom's M5 computer would merely be AI?
  - It would probably be sapient. Having bad judgement is still having judgement, and it did independently decide to exceed the parameters of its combat simulation. --Ted C 20:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
    - That's right, it did. DreadPirateRobert 20:44, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

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 question:  what's the relationship between sapience and [[artificial intelligence]]? --[[User:DreadPirateRobert]]
-* I would venture that ''intelligence'' is the capacity to learn, while ''sapience'' is having a personal identity (self-awareness). --[[User:Ted C|Ted C]] 19:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
+* I would venture that ''intelligence'' is the capacity to learn, while ''sapience'' is the ability to independently act on acquired knowledge (self-motivation). --[[User:Ted C|Ted C]] 19:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
+** Okay, so Data and C-3PO would be sapient, while Daystrom's M5 computer would merely be AI?
+*** It would probably be sapient.  Having ''bad'' judgement is still having judgement, and it did independently decide to exceed the parameters of its combat simulation. --[[User:Ted C|Ted C]] 20:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
+**** That's right, it did.  [[User:DreadPirateRobert|DreadPirateRobert]] 20:44, 5 August 2008 (UTC)