What is intelligence? - by vasto and Asterisk Magazine
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Can we do better than "you know it when you see it"?
[ Welcome! This is my first post. Thanks to Asterisk Magazine for supporting this blog post as part of their AI Fellows program. Thanks especially to Avital Morris, Clara Collier, and Jake Eaton for helping us figure out the esoteric art of blog writing. ] Whatever intelligence is, it seems important. We praise kids for being smart, and doing hard things like winning math olympiads and spelling bees. We look up to mathematicians that resolve centuries-old conjectures, people that can quickly remember hundreds of digits and the order of several decks of cards, and creatives that write…
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