What Is Intelligence?Blaise Aguera y Arcas
What Is Intelligence?
by Blaise Aguera y Arcas · first published 2025
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Tangential, but to people who find this topic interesting I highly recommend the book What is Intelligence [0] by Blaise Agüera y Arcas that views life through the lens of mutating self replicating Turing machines. In the book he also talks about GoF, but one of the fascinating experiments he did is that…
on “1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long” ↗…seems to be "the brain evolved precisely to predict the future—the “predictive brain” hypothesis." Which I guess is ok although we can do other stuff - write stories, play the piano and so on. Also: >What Is Intelligence? argues—quite against the grain—that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.
on “What is intelligence? (2024)” ↗…same thing) is a clear indicator of intelligence and there’s a good argument that that’s why we developed intelligence. These aren’t my ideas either, I’m just parroting what I recently read in the book “What is Intelligence” by Blaise Aguera y Arcas.
on “Game design is simple” ↗