Re: [sl4] Factors of intelligence

From: Roko Mijic (rmijic@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 09:21:39 MST


2009/2/26 Johnicholas Hines <johnicholas.hines@gmail.com>:
>>> > --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Petter Wingren-Rasmussen
>>> <petterwr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > > This is freely from the foreword of the swedish translation
>>> > > of "Check your own I.Q." by H.J.Eysenck.
>
> These psychological measures of intelligence are generally specialized
> for measuring and describing the differences in capability among
> humans. Rarely, they can be extrapolated to chimps or mammals in
> general.
>
> We need ideas of "intelligence" that can be applied to rocks,
> bacteria, single-celled creatures, plants, animals, calculators,
> single humans, the human race as a whole, weakly-superintelligent
> emulated humans, computers with many more MIPS than the human race as
> a whole and novel strongly superintelligent entities.

Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter have done this:

http://www.vetta.org/2008/07/machine-super-intelligence/

>
> Evolutionary "fitness" might be a candidate measure of intelligence,
> for all that it's uncomputable.
>
> Johnicholas
>

-- 
Roko Mijic
MSc by Research
University of Edinburgh


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