THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTATION IN ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence is a complex, natural phenomenon exhibited by humans and many other living things, without sharply defined boundaries between i ntelligent and unintelligent behaviour. Artificial intelligence focuse s on the phenomenon of intelligent behaviour, in humans or machines. E xperimentation with computer programs allows us to manipulate their de sign and intervene in the environmental conditions in ways that are no t possible with humans. Thus, experimentation can help us to understan d what principles govern intelligent action and what mechanisms are su fficient for computers to replicate intelligent behaviours.