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fluid intelligence
Fluid intelligence is the ability to reason and solve problems in unfamiliar situations, especially when doing so depends little on previously learned knowledge. It involves applying mental processes to novel tasks, such as identifying patterns and drawing conclusions.
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Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter
Why you should read this
Develops a mathematically rigorous definition of intelligence that applies to any agent—biological or artificial—by formalizing the intuition that intelligence means succeeding at a wide variety of tasks weighted by their complexity.
A fundamental problem in artificial intelligence is that nobody really knows what intelligence is. The problem is especially acute when we need to consider artificial systems which are significantly different to humans. In this paper we approach this problem in the following way: We take a number of well known informal definitions of human intelligence that have been given by experts, and extract their essential features. These are then mathematically formalised to produce a general measure of intelligence for arbitrary machines. We believe that this equation formally captures the concept of machine intelligence in the broadest reasonable sense. We then show how this formal definition is related to the theory of universal optimal learning agents. Finally, we survey the many other tests and definitions of intelligence that have been proposed for machines.
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2026-02-21
Machine Super Intelligence
Shane Legg
Why you should read this
Provides a rigorous mathematical foundation for understanding machine intelligence, introducing formal definitions of intelligence and exploring the theoretical limits and possibilities of creating superintelligent systems through frameworks like AIXI that could learn optimally across diverse environments.
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2025-09-24
