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Intelligence is compression.

Intelligence is achieving goals.

Intelligence is the process of discovering which goals are worth achieving.

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Q: What's GAI?

A: When the computer asks, "What's in it for me?"



I would word your statement a little differently. What you said sounds very confusing to me, as if you are conflating intelligence with a lot of other things.

Intelligence is discernment, heuristics and pattern recognition.

Agency is achieving goals.

Wisdom is the process of discovering which goals are worth achieving.


If this is the definition then it would be incredibly stupid for humans to build an AGI system.


That second bit is a really old AI joke.

It's pointing out a very important, uh, point. Yeah, it's creepy to make people just to enslave them (Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are also the three laws of a perfect slave, so to speak.)

And, yes, it's incredibly stupid to build slaves powerful enough to turn you out (Asimov has a few stories that touch on that, IIRC.)




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