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An interesting sampling of thoughts about the future of AI, the obstacles to "human-level" artificial intelligence, and how we might overcome those obstacles is found in the business week article with a link below). I find several interesting issues in the article. In this post, we explore the first; viz., the idea of "human-level" intelligence implicitly assumes that intelligence has levels. Within a very specific framework, it might make sense to talk about levels. For instance, if you are building a machine vision program to recognize hand-printed characters, and you have a very large sample of such hand printed characters to test on, then, it makes sense to measure your improvement in terms of accuracy.