A structured program analyzing data as a graph, and optimizing access, is interacting with phenomenon, updating its working knowledge of the phenomenon, and can

A structured program analyzing data as a graph, and optimizing access, is interacting with phenomenon, updating its working knowledge of the phenomenon, and can produce results that are very non-intuitive. Likewise, any symbolic mathematical system that accumulates theorems that speed up future work as it solves current tasks, seems like a high intelligence type of activity. Deep learning is “just” structured arithmetic. I think different kinds of intelligence can look quite different, and they will all be “structured” or “tropic” at their implementation levels. — Stepping away from the means, I see at least four “intelligence” dimensions: 1. Span: The span of novel situations for which it can create successful responses. 2. Efficiency: The efficiency of problem solving. I.e. When vast lookup tables, exhaustive combination searches, and indiscriminate logging of past experience can be matched instead by more efficient Boolean logic, arithmetic, pattern recognition and logging, we consider the latter more intelligent. 3. Abstraction: The degree to which solving previous different novel situations improves the success or efficiency in solving new problems. I.e. generalizable, composable learning. 4. Social education: Ability to communicate and absorb learned information from other entities. Plants, and I expect all surviving life forms, are very high in intelligence types 1 and 2. Adaptive nervous systems and especially brains excel at 3. Many animals, but most profoundly humans (whose languages for communicating are themselves actively adapted for compounding effects), excel at 4. Today’s humans are effectively more intelligent than 10,000 year ago humans, not because of 1-3, but because of 4. Learning as a child to read/write, do arithmetic, understand zero and negative numbers, and countless other information processing activities and patterns, from others, profoundly impacts our intellectual abilities. Deep learning, as with the human species, non-trivially spans, and continues to improve, on all 4 types of intelligence.