- Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute)
- Human-centered definitions of intelligence to account for when animals outperform humans on cognitive tasks; “we need a better notion of intelligence to properly appreciate the distinctive cognitive abilities of diverse agents.”
- A better model is ecological rationality, the degree to which an agent’s cognitive “toolbox” is adapted to its environment.
- Melanie Moses (University of New Mexico, Santa Fe Institute)
- Biological intelligence aims to use environmental maps to increase one’s fitness, and is able to change the world to make those maps more “valuable”; “biological general intelligence” means having many maps of the world, or maps that remain useful across diverse environments.
- Human intelligence includes the unique capacity for “understanding, meta-cognition, and a heightened ability to teach and learn”; Human cognition models both the world and our own minds, after Hofstadter
- Collective intelligences are able to balance Exploration-exploitation tradeoff by distributing objectives among individual members, organize into systems, and react to their own organization.
Log
2023-12-29
- Doesn’t the notion of “intelligence is a fit between a cognitive system and its environment” suggest that ML algorithms are highly intelligent for their given environments? This is not a satisfying judgement; we want something human-like in general when we talk about intelligence. Therefore, to me, this definition is unconvincing.