intelligence

10 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2014 by Ami Daniel · across every show →

Everything said about intelligence, oldest first

Oct 16, 2014
Insight
Maritime data manipulation undermines traditional intelligence watchlists
“On the world of intelligence, this undermines the whole concept of watch lists.”
Ami Daniel Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 13:13 Ami Daniel, Windward // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 11, 2018
Insight
Intelligence is the ability to model the world and act upon it
“Intelligence is the ability to model the world and to act purposefully on it.”
Dileep George Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 1:08 The State of AI & What's Next // Dileep George, Vicarious AI (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Dec 20, 2023 positive
Insight
Kant: Software development is the best proxy task for general AI intelligence
“Software development in our opinion, being a pretty good proxy task. For a big part of the spectrum of intelligence. You need an understanding, a model of the world, because we built software for the world. You need to be particularly strong at reasoning and y…”
Eiso Kant Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 6:58 The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
Oct 10, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: Cheaper AI will skyrocket intelligence usage across tasks and personal assistants
“As intelligence gets cheaper and cheaper, We won't just lose all the jobs that currently require intelligence. We will just use intelligence in more and more places. I think overall, the amount of, like, tasks that, you know, we believe require some decent amo…”
Richard Socher Oct 10, 2024 ▶ 15:30 AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
Apr 3, 2025
Insight
Chollet: Intelligence should be defined as skill acquisition efficiency
“And yeah, so I, to summarize that, you know, I see intelligence as skill acquisition efficiency. So it's not the fact that you can acquire skills, it's how efficiently You can do it. That's a measure of your intelligence.”
Francois Chollet Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 16:06 Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
Nov 6, 2025
Insight
Kant: If AI intelligence commoditizes, only scale and delivery cost matter
“And within this world, if you think that intelligence is going to become less distinguishable between the companies building it, And becomes a commodity probably more like oil or cloud compute than like bread at the bakery, is there's two things that matter, y…”
Eiso Kant Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 5:34 Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
Nov 6, 2025
Insight
Kant: The three critical AI stack layers are energy, compute, and intelligence
“There's three layers of the stack that fundamentally are going to matter. It's energy, it's compute, and it's the intelligence built on top.”
Eiso Kant Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 5:23 Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eiso Kant: AI intelligence is going to become a commodity
“I would actually go as far as saying that intelligence is going to become a commodity.”
Eiso Kant Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 4:10 Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
May 7, 2026
Insight
The vast majority of modern AI intelligence comes from self-training
“I don't think people have properly internalized the fact that the vast majority of intelligence comes from self training effectively.”
Zico Kolter May 7, 2026 ▶ 1:05:53 OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
Sep 10, 2026
Insight
Socher: Intelligence is fundamentally built on prediction, action, and goals
“The very foundational building blocks, which I currently think are prediction, action, and goals and a combination of those three. Those are sort of the three principal components.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:10:43 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
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