synthetic intelligence

plural synthetic intelligences

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative term for artificial intelligence.

   Man will be able to accelerate the rate of progress in every field when electronic synthetic intelligence is readily available to supplement the intellectual abilities of man's natural brain.

   1967, Robert W. Prehoda, Designing the Future: The Role of Technological Forecasting, Chilton

2. countableuncountableA concept related to artificial intelligence, emphasizing that the intelligence is true rather than simulated.

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   Perhaps Artificial Intelligence should be called “Synthetic Intelligence” to accord better with commercial parlance. Thus artificial diamonds are fake imitations, whereas synthetic diamonds are genuine diamonds, only manufactured instead of dug up (compare also artificial maple flavoring versus, say, synthetic insulin).

   [1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255

3. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see synthetic, intelligence.

   Like the fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes, people with synthetic intelligence recognize the significance of small bits of information and are able to connect them in ways that no one else could imagine.

   2000, Steven Lattimore McShane, Brownstone Research Group, Canadian Organizational Behaviour, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 331