Abstract
Artificial intelligence is too often very quickly distinguished from human intelligence. In my talk, I explored the basis on which this belief can be formulated.
In a historical investigation, it turns out by comparison that intelligence has been understood much more broadly than is the case today. Moreover, I show that the artificiality aspect of intelligence is also not a novelty, but has been thought of since Plato and then over many centuries.
This brings to the fore the question of what actually distinguishes contemporary A.I. techniques in philosophical terms from what we have hitherto understood by intelligence and technology.