Knoop: AGI is properly defined as efficient skill acquisition
Mike Knoop · No Priors Ep. 68 | With Zapier Co-Founder and Head of AI Mike Knoop · Jun 11, 2024 · at 3:57
Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and co-creator of the ARC Prize, explains why he favors François Chollet's definition of AGI over the mainstream economic output definition.
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“Francois definition, which is the one that I think is the right one is this definition that general intelligence is a system that can effectively, efficiently acquire new skill. That's it efficiently acquiring new skill and being able to solve these open-ended problems with that ability.”
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