Intelligence has three dimensions: strategy, encoding/representation, and inference.
Intelligent tasks involve pursuing an objective using strategic thinking.
Encoding or representation involves encoding properties of the natural world for strategic advantage.
Inference involves deduction, induction, and abduction, and is the calculation on the stored memory.
Different forms of life vary in their respective inferential representational strategic powers.
With the recent release of GPT-4, now seemed like a good time for our episodes on intelligence. And not just artificial intelligence, but intelligence in general. To help us on this journey, we're joined again by David Krakauer, President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.
This episode is part one of our two-part conversation with David about intelligence. In part 2, David is going to cover artificial intelligence. But in this episode, we're going back to basics and David asks, what is it that makes us intelligent?