One way to describe intelligence is as "the ability to understand something from a partial description".
How minimalist this description can be is a measure of intelligence.
How minimalist this description can be is a measure of intelligence.
If your AI needs an excruciatingly exhaustive description of its task (as an explicit handcrafted program, or as a dense sampling of a static data manifold), it isn't actually intelligent. When you operate it, you're just querying the information you put into it. No autonomy.
Intelligence is the ratio with which your AI converts information about a task into skill at that task.
Importantly, the task is typically not static, so "skill" here targets *future* situations, which may be very unlike past ones.
Importantly, the task is typically not static, so "skill" here targets *future* situations, which may be very unlike past ones.
The conversion is from past operating space to future operating space.
