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I suspect that any honest attempt at answering your question will be met with an evasive definition of 'intelligence'.


You are hitting the nail on the head but in the wrong direction, as I've stated in another post

"There is a problem with AI, but it's not with the A part, it's with the I part. I want you to give me an algorithmic description of scalable intelligence that covers intelligent behaviors at the smallest scales of life all the way to human behaviors. I know you cannot do this has many very 'intelligent' people have been working on this problem for a long time and have not come up with an agreed upon answer. The fact you see an increase and change in definitions as a failure seems pretty sad to me. We have vastly increased our understanding of what intelligence is and that previous definitions have needed to adapt and change to new information. This occurs in every field of science and is a measure of progress, again that you see this differently is worrying."

This AI issue will always fail at the I issue because the we are trying to define too much. We need to break down intelligence to much smaller digestible pieces instead of trying to treat it as a reachable whole. The models we are creating would then fall more neatly into categorical units rather than the poorly defined mess of what is considered human intelligence.




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