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Activity 3

INTELLIGENT PAPER

What do you mean by Intelligence
Can you define it? Is human intelligence the only form of intelligence? What makes
a machine or computer “intelligent”? Let us perform an activity to find out.

Take an A4 size paper and write the instructions of Tic-Tac-Toe on it. You can refer

to ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe).

Take an A4 size paper and tell your classmates that this piece of paper is more

intelligent than anybody else in the class. Wave the paper before them ensuring
that the written side of the paper is hidden from everyone.

Ask everyone to tell you whether they believe you or not. First ask those to raise
their hands who believe that the piece of paper is more intelligent than them and

then those who feel that this does not make sense and that you are making a
false claim.

Chances are that most people would say that it doesn’t make sense and reject

your claim that it is the paper which is more intelligent. You thank them for their
opinion and as a true scientist move on with your hypothesis. Now ask those
who believed you that why they say what they say and what makes the paper

more intelligent. Ask for the reasoning or logic behind their answer. Some of the
reasoning would be:

• Special ink or special paper or embedded chip in the paper

• Something on the paper could be great, such as an equation or music notes or
a famous piece of art, etc.

It will come down to what makes this paper so special that you are calling it

intelligent. Right?

The claim is that... This paper has never lost a game of Tic-Tac-Toe!

To prove this, ask two volunteers to come forward. Ask one of them to play on
behalf of the paper and the other to play on behalf of humans. So, it is essentially

Human vs Paper!

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