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> Intelligence is the ability to achieve goals

A more precise definition by François Chollet: The intelligence of a system is a measure of its skill-acquisition efficiency over a scope of tasks, with respect to priors, experience, and generalization difficulty

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.01547.pdf

So a system is more intelligent if it can solve harder tasks with fewer trials and prior knowledge. Intelligence is always defined over a scope of tasks, for example human intelligence only applies to the space of tasks and domains that fit within the human experience. Our intelligence does not have extreme generalization even though we have broad generalization (defined as adaptation to unknown unknowns across a broad category of related tasks).



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