Intelligence having a limit
Kinda sad to think about intelligence having a limit because of information. I’m gonna choose to believe it doesn’t, in a mystical fashion. Read this below recently.
Intelligence is the efficiency with which you operationalise past information in order to deal with the future.
You can interpret it as a conversion ratio, and this ratio can be formally expressed using algorithmic information theory.
A consequence of intelligence being a conversion ratio is that it is bounded. You cannot do better than optimality, perfect conversion of the information you have available into the ability to deal with future situations.
You often hear people talk about how future AI will be omnipotent since it will have “an IQ of 10,000” or something like that, or about how machine intelligence could increase exponentially. This makes no sense. If you are very intelligent, then your bottleneck quickly becomes the speed at which you can collect new information, rather than your intelligence.
In fact, most scientific fields today are not bounded by the limits of human intelligence but by experimentation.
François Chollet
Connected
- led toWas AI already there?Reading that intelligence is capped by information leads straight to asking if information is infinite.
- argues withMoore's Law and the cosmic scriptAn exponential march to the infinite, then reading that intelligence is bounded.
- grew intoReality becoming legible to itselfHoping intelligence has no limit grows into intelligence as reality uncovering its own possibilities.