[ExI] AGI (and other) IQ test

[Richard Loosemore]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> See <http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-universal-intelligence.html>

Allow me to paraphrase the research (based on the abstract):

"We don't know how to define 'intelligence' so we will substitute the 
definition of something else - a parameter extracted from the behavior 
of simple function, when that function is applied to an infinite set of 
parallel universes - and then stick the label 'intelligence' on this 
parameter and hope you don't notice that it has nothing to do with the 
meaning of the same word, when used by ordinary people.

Next we build a test for this thing that we call 'intelligence', but 
since a proper test would require access to infinite sets of parallel 
universes, we will just truncate it what we think is a good enough way, 
and call it done"

If you like drinking hogswash you'll enjoy this vintage.



Richard Loosemore









> which links to
> 
> José Hernández-Oralloa, *, E-mail The Corresponding Author and David 
> L. Doweb, E-mail The Corresponding Author
> 
> a Departament de Sistemes Informà tics i Computació, Universitat 
> Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, E-46022, València, Spain
> 
> b Computer Science & Software Engineering, Clayton School of I.T., 
> Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
> Received 16 December 2009;
> revised 24 September 2010;
> accepted 24 September 2010.
> Available online 29 September 2010.
> 
> Abstract
> 
> In this paper, we develop the idea of a universal anytime intelligence 
> test. The meaning of the terms “universal” and “anytime” is 
> manifold here: the test should be able to measure the intelligence of 
> any biological or artificial system that exists at this time or in the 
> future. It should also be able to evaluate both inept and brilliant 
> systems (any intelligence level) as well as very slow to very fast 
> systems (any time scale). Also, the test may be interrupted at any time, 
> producing an approximation to the intelligence score, in such a way that 
> the more time is left for the test, the better the assessment will be. 
> In order to do this, our test proposal is based on previous works on the 
> measurement of machine intelligence based on Kolmogorov complexity and 
> universal distributions, which were developed in the late 1990s (C-tests 
> and compression-enhanced Turing tests). It is also based on the more 
> recent idea of measuring intelligence through dynamic/interactive tests 
> held against a universal distribution of environments. We discuss some 
> of these tests and highlight their limitations since we want to 
> construct a test that is both general and practical. Consequently, we 
> introduce many new ideas that develop early “compression tests” and 
> the more recent definition of “universal intelligence” in order to 
> design new “universal intelligence tests”, where a feasible 
> implementation has been a design requirement. One of these tests is the 
> “anytime intelligence test”, which adapts to the examinee's level of 
> intelligence in order to obtain an intelligence score within a limited 
> time.
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