synthetic intelligence

English[edit]

synthetic intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural synthetic intelligences)

Synonym of artificial intelligence
- 1967, Robert W. Prehoda, Designing the Future: The Role of Technological Forecasting‎^[1], Chilton:
  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.
- [1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255:
  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).]
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see synthetic,‎ intelligence.
- 2000, Steven Lattimore McShane, Brownstone Research Group, Canadian Organizational Behaviour, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 331:
  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.