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synthetic intelligence

synthetic intelligence noun: a concept related to artificial intelligence, emphasizing that the intelligence is true rather than simulated. Also the alternative form of artificial intelligence.

Noun

synthetic intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural synthetic intelligences)

  1. A concept related to artificial intelligence, emphasizing that the intelligence is true rather than simulated.
    • 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...[1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255
  2. Used 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

Also used as

synthetic intelligence is also the alternative form of artificial intelligence.

Forms of synthetic intelligence

pluralsynthetic intelligences

Questions about synthetic intelligence

What does synthetic intelligence mean?
Synthetic intelligence means a concept related to artificial intelligence, emphasizing that the intelligence is true rather than simulated.
What part of speech is synthetic intelligence?
Synthetic intelligence is a noun.
What is the plural of synthetic intelligence?
The plural of synthetic intelligence is synthetic intelligences.

Words near synthetic intelligence in the dictionary

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  6. synthetic intelligence
  7. synthetic intelligences
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