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Daniel Situnayake: AI on the Edge

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Importance of General Intelligence

I was thinking about this the other day, and the kind of definitions of intelligence that we have. That are very kind of intellectually focused and quite narrow. And even the general field of AI, I think in a lot of ways, if you say AI, is going to assume you're talking about this kind of intellectual, artificial, general intelligence. To me, I think about AI as reproducing intelligence synthetically, but the intelligence doesn't have to be the same kind of intelligence that I use to write a blog post. It could be the intelligence that a housefly uses to track down a bit of fruit that it wants to eat or the intelligence that frog uses to understand how much force

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