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Francois Chollet - On the Measure of Intelligence

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Can All Do This One Task?

This g factor idea is really interesting, trying to find the common task that all these different tasks like rubics cube solver, maze salver, write a poem. Can all do this one g factor hierarchy of cognition? I really like the physical fitness analogy where he says, the marathon runner, the bench presser and the basketball player, they all have this common lung capacity thing at the top. So you can try that do theon. But i think catastrophic forgetting is unlikely to follow this hierarchy. Might maintain the specialized skills and forget the general thing. It doesn't surprise me that there is a general quotient of intelligence because all the human cognitive tasks that we perform have an inter

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