Thursday, August 8, 2019

What is Intelligence?

What is Intelligence?
The ability of a system to calculate, reason, perceive relationships and analogies, learn from experience, store and retrieve information from memory, solve problems, comprehend complex ideas, use natural language fluently, classify, generalize, and adapt new situations.

Types of Intelligence
As described by Howard Gardner, an American developmental psychologist, Intelligence comes in multi fold −
Sr.NoIntelligence & DescriptionExample
1
Linguistic intelligence
The ability to speak, recognize, and use mechanisms of phonology (speech sounds), syntax (grammar), and semantics (meaning).
Narrators, Orators
2
Musical intelligence
The ability to create, communicate with, and understand meanings made of sound, understanding of pitch, rhythm.
Musicians, Singers, Composers
3
Logical-mathematical intelligence
The ability to use and understand relationships in the absence of action or objects. It is also the ability to understand complex and abstract ideas.
Mathematicians, Scientists
4
Spatial intelligence
The ability to perceive visual or spatial information, change it, and re-create visual images without reference to the objects, construct 3D images, and to move and rotate them.
Map readers, Astronauts, Physicists
5
Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence
The ability to use complete or part of the body to solve problems or fashion products, control over fine and coarse motor skills, and manipulate the objects.
Players, Dancers
6
Intra-personal intelligence
The ability to distinguish among one’s own feelings, intentions, and motivations.
Gautam Buddhha
7
Interpersonal intelligence
The ability to recognize and make distinctions among other people’s feelings, beliefs, and intentions.
Mass Communicators, Interviewers
You can say a machine or a system is artificially intelligent when it is equipped with at least one or all intelligence's in it.

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