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AI-complete en · ADJ

Etymology

By analogy with terms like NP-complete.

Meanings

  1. (informal, not-comparable, qualifier:artificial intelligence) Of a problem: such that a solution presupposes or entails solving the problem of constructing a general artificial intelligence ("strong AI").
    • ... Now imagine a remote descendant of such a system that has acquired the ability to read with as much understanding as a human ten-year-old but with a reading speed similar to that of TextRunner. (This is probably an AI-complete problem.) 2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 71:
    • Just as concept kernels are not AI-complete, sequiturs and resonances are not AI-complete. Sequiturs and resonances also may not need to be human- equivalent to minimally support deliberation; it is acceptable for an early AI to miss out on many humanly obvious thoughts, so long as those thoughts which are successfully generated sum to fully general deliberation. 2007, Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 452:
    • Problems like solving crosswords from clues are reputed as AI-complete [7]. This enormous complexity is due to its semantics and the large amount of encyclopaedic knowledge required. 2006, M.Gori, M.Ernandes, G.Angelini, “Cracking Crosswords: The Computer Challenge”, in Oliviero Stock, Marco Schaerf, editors, Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 266: