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#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

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What's the G Factor?

The G factor is a statistical construct that explains clusters of correlations among test results. It's not really something you can directly measure, for instance, in a person. But it's there at scale. At scale, psychometrics paints a certain picture of the human mind. And that's what's written to AI, the structure of human cognitive abilities.

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