Yes, I think we’re in agreement—the Stuart Russell definition is much closer to my meaning (1) for ‘intelligence’ (ie a universal cognitive ability shared across individuals) than to my meaning (2) for ‘intelligence’ (i.e. the psychometric g factor).
The trouble comes mostly when the two are conflated, e.g. when we imagine that ‘superintelligence’ will basically be like an IQ 900 person (whatever that would mean), or when we confuse ‘general intelligence’ as indexed by the g factor with truly ‘domain-general intelligence’ that could help an agents do whatever it wants to achieve, in any domain, given any possible perceptual input.
There’s a lot more to say about this issue; I should write a longer form post about it soon.
Yes, I think we’re in agreement—the Stuart Russell definition is much closer to my meaning (1) for ‘intelligence’ (ie a universal cognitive ability shared across individuals) than to my meaning (2) for ‘intelligence’ (i.e. the psychometric g factor).
The trouble comes mostly when the two are conflated, e.g. when we imagine that ‘superintelligence’ will basically be like an IQ 900 person (whatever that would mean), or when we confuse ‘general intelligence’ as indexed by the g factor with truly ‘domain-general intelligence’ that could help an agents do whatever it wants to achieve, in any domain, given any possible perceptual input.
There’s a lot more to say about this issue; I should write a longer form post about it soon.