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

“I'm like, oh, this isn't the bit that he was really focusing on. I don't know. I'd have to ask him.”

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28 Aug 2025
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Machine Learning Street Talk

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…I think that might be because Charlet Yeah. He describes process, which is the intelligence. And that produces skill programs. So the programs are a compression, but the process which created them is doing something more, maybe? Yeah. I felt like that part was I chose to focus on the test part at that point. I'm like, oh, this isn't the bit that he was really focusing on. I don't know. I'd have to ask him. Yes. But you did say something interesting. So yeah, maybe a distinction from is that and he thinks of LLMs as being a kind of interpretive collection of skilled programs. So he thinks programs are the output of an intelligence system, not the intelligence itself. And with, let's say, and we should talk about what that is. I don't think the concept of a program was an explicit output artifact. It was more a definition of an agent which can succeed in an environment. Is that fair?…

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