Questions tagged [intelligence]

For questions about the concept of intelligence, not restricted to Artificial Intelligence, but applied also to intelligence in nature, quantification of intelligence (problem solving strength), and qualification of intelligence (terminology and the range of meanings).

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

Intelligence is most widely studied in humans but has also been observed in both non-human animals and in plants. Intelligence in machines is called artificial intelligence, which is commonly implemented in computer systems using program software.
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What is the most general definition of "intelligence"?

When we talk about artificial intelligence, human intelligence, or any other form of intelligence, what do we mean by the term intelligence in a general sense? What would you call intelligent and what not? In other words, how do we define the term…
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Is the smartest robot more clever than the stupidest human?

Most humans are not good at chess. They can't write symphonies. They don't read novels. They aren't good athletes. They aren't good at logical reasoning. Most of us just get up. Go to work in a factory or farm or something. Follow simple…
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Is artificial intelligence really just human intelligence?

Essentially, AI is created by human minds, so is the intelligence & creativity of algorithms properly an extension of human intelligence & creativity, rather than something independent? I assume that intelligence does not necessarily require…
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How widely accepted is the definition of intelligence by Marcus Hutter & Shane Legg?

I came across several papers by M. Hutter & S. Legg. Especially this one: Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence, Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter Given that it was published back in 2007, how much recognition or agreement has it…
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Are Rationality and Intelligence distinct?

This just popped into my head, and I haven't thought it through, but it feels like a sound question. The definition of intelligence might still be somewhat fuzzy, possibly a factor of our evolving understanding of "intelligence" in regard to…
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How do we define intention if there is no free will?

There is an idea that intentionality may be a requirement of true intelligence, here defined as human intelligence. But all I know for certain is that we have the appearance of free will. Under the assumption that the universe is purely…
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In machine learning, how can we overcome the restrictive nature of conjunctive space?

In machine learning, problem space can be represented through concept space, instance space version space and hypothesis space. These problem spaces used the conjunctive space and are very restrictive one and also in the above-mentioned…
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At what text-based tasks are "dumb humans" still better than the best language models?

I ran into this AI-SE question from 5 years ago and I believe that an updated version could be interesting to discuss nowadays: Is the smartest robot more clever than the stupidest human? Today's best LLMs are displaying a lot of human-like…
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Can you provide some pseudocode examples of what constitutes an AI?

After years of learning, I still can't understand what is considered to be an AI. What are the requirements for an algorithm to constitute Artificial Intelligence? Can you provide pseudocode examples of what constitutes an AI?
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Intelligent reflecting surface

I wanted to know about Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology. what is the application of IRS in wireless communication? what are the competitive advantages over existing technologies?
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Is Intelligence a naturally occurring function of Information Technology?

Here intelligence is defined as any analytic or decision making process, regardless of strength (utility), and, potentially, any process of computation that produces output, regardless of the medium. The idea that AI is part of an evolutionary…
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Can a brain be intelligent without a body?

The dialog context Turing proposed at the end of the description of his famous test, "Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman? These questions…