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

“Yeah. And I think a lot of people who sort of look at what is intelligence, they end up writing very long and complicated definitions.”

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28 Aug 2025
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Machine Learning Street Talk

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…Me too. I I could Pei, if you're watching this, I'm sorry we haven't published your interview yet. Basically, the reason is I I loved his defining artificial intelligence paper so much that we'd be meaning to make a special edition on it, so I kind of held back his material for quite a while and we still haven't still haven't done it. But even though it's my favorite definition as well, and of course it informs his NASS framework, his non axiomatic reasoning framework. You know, some might say it's almost a bit tautological, you know, just to say, well, yeah, intelligence is about adaptation with insufficient resources. And in his paper, went, he was at pains to kind of say, well, we need to have simplicity. We need to have fruitfulness in the definition. It's actually a really difficult thing to get a handle on. Yeah. And I think a lot of people who sort of look at what is intelligence, they end up writing very long and complicated definitions. And then you spend more time trying to figure out what the definition means than actually thinking about intelligence. That's another reason I like pace, I guess. Yes.…

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