intelligence on whose terms?

At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.

if we are truly to appreciate what non-human intelligence might consist of – and thus transform our understanding of our own abilities and those of others – we need to stop thinking about intelligence as something defined by human experience. Instead, we must from the outset think about intelligence as something more-than-human.

First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme

To define intelligence simply as what humans do is the narrowest way we could possibly think about it – and it is ultimately to narrow ourselves, and lessen its possible meaning. Rather, by expanding our definition of intelligence, and the chorus of minds which manifest it, we might allow our own intelligence to flower into new forms and new emerge

When we speak about advanced artificial intelligence, or ‘general’ artificial intelligence, this is what we mean. An intelligence which operates at the same level, and in much the same manner, as human intelligence.

Rethinking what intelligence might be also allows us to rethink the modes and mechanisms which might produce it, and thus to come up with new ways of being intelligent.