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28 Aug 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk Michael Timothy Bennett: Defining Intelligence and AGI Approaches

“I think there was a distinction as well that certainly Legg and Hunter, they were very focused on on their simplification of of the model and Occam's razor.”

— Tim Scarfe

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Tim Scarfe
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28 Aug 2025
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Machine Learning Street Talk

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…Normalization. And of course, it's so interesting that actually when you dig into this deeply, it it just becomes apparent how difficult this problem actually is, you know, like many people might just think, oh, yeah, defining intelligence. We've got that nowadays as you go. I think there was a distinction as well that certainly Legg and Hunter, they were very focused on on their simplification of of the model and Occam's razor. And I think Charley did overcome 1 hurdle, which is task a generality as well, this developer aware generalization. Yeah. So so for Charle's definition is not a general definition of intelligence. So it's it's very much a specialized definition. So it's it's intelligence relative to a scope of tasks. Oh, yeah.…

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