general intelligence

also referred to as: general intelligences

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2017 by Murray Shanahan · across every show →

Everything said about general intelligence, oldest first

Jun 28, 2017 positive
Opinion
DeepMind's DQN is arguably one of the first artificial general intelligences
“To my mind, DQN is in a sense, one of the very first general intelligences because it learns completely from scratch. You can throw A whole variety of problems at it, and it, you know, it doesn't always do that well, but in many cases it does pretty well.”
Murray Shanahan Jun 28, 2017 ▶ 45:11 Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
Jul 3, 2025 negative
Opinion
Chollet: AI field is obsessed with idea that scale alone yields AGI
“Our field became obsessed with the idea that general intelligence would spontaneously emerge by cramming more and more data into bigger and bigger models.”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 1:27 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
Mar 27, 2026
Insight
Chollet: General Intelligence Is Human-Level Skill Acquisition Efficiency
“General intelligence is human level. Skill acquisition efficiency on the same scope of tasks that humans could potentially learn to do.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 10:42 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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