Here’s an improved and structured list of criteria for general intelligence (GI), tailored for human-level understanding and considering the capabilities and limitations of current AI technology:
Learning and Adaptation
Human-Level Expectation: Ability to learn new concepts, skills, and tasks across various domains without specific pre-programming. Adapt to new and unfamiliar situations effectively.
Current AI: Specialized machine learning models excel at task-specific learning but struggle with transfer learning across vastly different domains.
Reasoning and Problem-Solving
Human-Level Expectation: Logical reasoning, abstract thought, and the ability to solve novel and complex problems with limited information.
Current AI: Good at structured problem-solving within predefined rules (e.g., chess, Go) but struggles with open-ended, ambiguous, or poorly defined problems.
Perception and Understanding
Human-Level Expectation: Capability to perceive, interpret, and understand diverse sensory inputs (visual, auditory, textual) and contextualize them meaningfully.
Current AI: Strong in narrow perception tasks (e.g., image recognition, speech-to-text) but lacks comprehensive multimodal understanding and nuanced contextual awareness.
Creativity and Innovation
Human-Level Expectation: Generate novel ideas, concepts, or solutions that are original and valuable. Combine unrelated information creatively.
Current AI: Can mimic creativity (e.g., generating art, writing) within boundaries of existing data but lacks the genuine originality seen in humans.
Social and Emotional Intelligence
Human-Level Expectation: Understand, interpret, and respond appropriately to human emotions, behaviors, and social cues. Exhibit empathy and build relationships.
Current AI: Limited to pre-programmed emotional recognition and response patterns. Lacks authentic empathy or true understanding of social dynamics.
Memory and Knowledge Retention
Human-Level Expectation: Retain, organize, and recall past experiences or knowledge to inform decisions and behavior in real-time.
Current AI: Good at storing and retrieving vast amounts of data but lacks long-term experiential memory and personalized understanding.
Generalization and Transfer Learning
Human-Level Expectation: Apply knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another, even when contexts differ.
Current AI: Limited generalization; successes in transfer learning are domain-specific and far from human-level adaptability.
Goal-Oriented Behavior
Human-Level Expectation: Define, pursue, and achieve diverse goals autonomously, balancing conflicting objectives when needed.
Current AI: Works well with clearly defined goals but struggles with balancing competing priorities or autonomously setting meaningful objectives.
Self-Awareness and Meta-Cognition
Human-Level Expectation: Understand one’s own state, capabilities, and limitations. Reflect on and regulate one’s thought processes.
Current AI: Lacks true self-awareness or understanding of its limitations; it operates within predefined parameters without introspection.
Ethical and Moral Reasoning
Human-Level Expectation: Make decisions that consider ethical principles, cultural values, and societal norms. Adapt morality contextually and appropriately.
Current AI: Ethics are externally imposed (via programming or guidelines). AI lacks innate moral reasoning or the ability to adapt ethically across contexts.
Physical Interaction and Embodiment
Human-Level Expectation: Navigate and interact with the physical world effectively, using tools and adapting to physical challenges.
Current AI: Robotics and embodied AI are improving but still far behind humans in physical dexterity, adaptability, and decision-making in real-world environments.
Intuition and “Common Sense”
Human-Level Expectation: Possess an innate understanding of everyday situations, physical laws, and social norms, even when unstated.
Current AI: Limited to explicitly trained knowledge; often fails in tasks requiring common-sense reasoning or implicit understanding.
Persistence and Goal Persistence
Human-Level Expectation: Continue efforts toward a goal despite challenges, setbacks, or changing circumstances.
Current AI: Performs tasks based on pre-set parameters but lacks intrinsic motivation or the ability to “persevere” without external instructions.
Ethical Use of AI Technology
Acknowledge that the development of general intelligence must align with ethical principles, ensuring safety, fairness, and accountability.
This list can serve as a roadmap to evaluate progress toward general intelligence, highlighting where current AI excels and where significant gaps remain compared to human cognition.
That we need to produce a better, generally-accepted benchmark of human-level general intelligence, I expect.
Coming up with such a metric is a real problem that probably is an important step on the way to producing such a artificial general intelligence.
Just use chat gpt of course…
Here’s an improved and structured list of criteria for general intelligence (GI), tailored for human-level understanding and considering the capabilities and limitations of current AI technology:
Human-Level Expectation: Ability to learn new concepts, skills, and tasks across various domains without specific pre-programming. Adapt to new and unfamiliar situations effectively.
Current AI: Specialized machine learning models excel at task-specific learning but struggle with transfer learning across vastly different domains.
Human-Level Expectation: Logical reasoning, abstract thought, and the ability to solve novel and complex problems with limited information.
Current AI: Good at structured problem-solving within predefined rules (e.g., chess, Go) but struggles with open-ended, ambiguous, or poorly defined problems.
Human-Level Expectation: Capability to perceive, interpret, and understand diverse sensory inputs (visual, auditory, textual) and contextualize them meaningfully.
Current AI: Strong in narrow perception tasks (e.g., image recognition, speech-to-text) but lacks comprehensive multimodal understanding and nuanced contextual awareness.
Human-Level Expectation: Generate novel ideas, concepts, or solutions that are original and valuable. Combine unrelated information creatively.
Current AI: Can mimic creativity (e.g., generating art, writing) within boundaries of existing data but lacks the genuine originality seen in humans.
Human-Level Expectation: Understand, interpret, and respond appropriately to human emotions, behaviors, and social cues. Exhibit empathy and build relationships.
Current AI: Limited to pre-programmed emotional recognition and response patterns. Lacks authentic empathy or true understanding of social dynamics.
Human-Level Expectation: Retain, organize, and recall past experiences or knowledge to inform decisions and behavior in real-time.
Current AI: Good at storing and retrieving vast amounts of data but lacks long-term experiential memory and personalized understanding.
Human-Level Expectation: Apply knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another, even when contexts differ.
Current AI: Limited generalization; successes in transfer learning are domain-specific and far from human-level adaptability.
Human-Level Expectation: Define, pursue, and achieve diverse goals autonomously, balancing conflicting objectives when needed.
Current AI: Works well with clearly defined goals but struggles with balancing competing priorities or autonomously setting meaningful objectives.
Human-Level Expectation: Understand one’s own state, capabilities, and limitations. Reflect on and regulate one’s thought processes.
Current AI: Lacks true self-awareness or understanding of its limitations; it operates within predefined parameters without introspection.
Human-Level Expectation: Make decisions that consider ethical principles, cultural values, and societal norms. Adapt morality contextually and appropriately.
Current AI: Ethics are externally imposed (via programming or guidelines). AI lacks innate moral reasoning or the ability to adapt ethically across contexts.
Human-Level Expectation: Navigate and interact with the physical world effectively, using tools and adapting to physical challenges.
Current AI: Robotics and embodied AI are improving but still far behind humans in physical dexterity, adaptability, and decision-making in real-world environments.
Human-Level Expectation: Possess an innate understanding of everyday situations, physical laws, and social norms, even when unstated.
Current AI: Limited to explicitly trained knowledge; often fails in tasks requiring common-sense reasoning or implicit understanding.
Human-Level Expectation: Continue efforts toward a goal despite challenges, setbacks, or changing circumstances.
Current AI: Performs tasks based on pre-set parameters but lacks intrinsic motivation or the ability to “persevere” without external instructions.
Acknowledge that the development of general intelligence must align with ethical principles, ensuring safety, fairness, and accountability.
This list can serve as a roadmap to evaluate progress toward general intelligence, highlighting where current AI excels and where significant gaps remain compared to human cognition.