What Is Intelligence? The Definitions Crisis
What Is AGI, Actually?
The definitions crisis: why AGI has no agreed definition, and why that matters for the entire debate.
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5 pagesLesson 4 — What Is Intelligence? The Definitions Crisis
Understanding the Complex: What Is AGI, Actually?
Back to AlphaZero. It masters three games in 24 hours with no human data. It beats every specialist engine that spent years being optimized. Is it intelligent?
If you say yes — then AGI already exists, and the question of whether we'll achieve it is moot.
If you say no — you need to explain what AlphaZero is missing, and your answer to that question is a definition of intelligence.
Here's the problem: the field doesn't have one.