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What is What is Intelligence? about?

Before we start discussing Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), let us begin by reviewing what we mean by "intelligence" (in a non-philosophical context). ### 1.1. Intelligence ETYMOLOGY.-The word "intelligence" comes from the Latin intelligentia meaning "faculty of perception", "comprehension". It is derived from intellĕgĕre ("discern", "grasp", "understand"), which is composed of the prefix inter-("between") and the verb lĕgĕre ("pick", "choose", "read"). Etymologically speaking, intelligence consists of making a choice, a selection. We could therefore say that intelligence is defined as the set of mental faculties that make it possible to understand things and facts, and to discover the relationships between them in order to arrive at a rational understanding (knowledge) (as opposed to intuition). It makes it possible to understand and adapt to new situations and can therefore also be defined as adaptability. Intelligence can be seen as the ability to process information to achieve an objective. In this book, we are particularly interested in the latter definition: projecting intelligence in the digital world of the

Author

Fernando Iafrate

Publisher

Wiley ISTE, Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786300836

Subjects

Computer Science, Science, Stem