intelligence on whose terms?

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.

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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

Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

If AI starts to generate intelligence by itself, there’s no guarantee that it will be human-like. Rather than humans teaching machines to think like humans, machines might teach humans new ways of thinking.

Will Douglas Heaven • AI is learning how to create itself

Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.

Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

intelligence is not one-dimensional,

Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!

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

Erik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

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.