On the Definition of Intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22423v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:04:00 GMT
• Title: On the Definition of Intelligence
• Authors: Kei-Sing Ng,
• Abstract summary: We first capture the essence of intelligence in a species-agnostic form that can be evaluated, while being sufficiently general to encompass diverse paradigms of intelligent behavior.<n>We propose a general criterion based on sample fidelity: intelligence is the ability, given sample(s) from a category, to generate sample(s) from the same category.<n>We present the formal framework, outline empirical protocols, and discuss implications for evaluation, safety, and generalization.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: To engineer AGI, we should first capture the essence of intelligence in a species-agnostic form that can be evaluated, while being sufficiently general to encompass diverse paradigms of intelligent behavior, including reinforcement learning, generative models, classification, analogical reasoning, and goal-directed decision-making. We propose a general criterion based on sample fidelity: intelligence is the ability, given sample(s) from a category, to generate sample(s) from the same category. We formalise this intuition as {\epsilon}-category intelligence: it is {\epsilon}-intelligent with respect to a category if no chosen admissible distinguisher can separate generated from original samples beyond tolerance {\epsilon}. We present the formal framework, outline empirical protocols, and discuss implications for evaluation, safety, and generalization.

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