> makes the best possible decision about the future with the information that it has available So would a good thermostat be considered intelligent, assuming i

> makes the best possible decision about the future with the information that it has available So would a good thermostat be considered intelligent, assuming it takes great decisions? Intelligence needs to be defined with respect to a range of tasks and a range of priors. It's skill acquisition efficiency, not just taking good decisions. I recommend "On the Measure of Intelligence" by François Chollet >We argue that solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience: unlimited priors or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power. We then articulate a new formal definition of intelligence based on Algorithmic Information Theory, describing intelligence as skill acquisition efficiency and highlighting the concepts of scope, generalization difficulty, priors, and experience. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547