Intelligence-Requiring Task

An Intelligence-Requiring Task is a information-processing task (a decisioning task) that has a task goal.

• Context:
  • Input: a Task Description; a Task Goal.
  • output: a Task Goal Solution.
  • measure: Intelligence Task Performance Measure, ...
  • It can range from being a Domain-Specific Intelligence Task to being a General Intelligence Task.
  • It can range from being a Human-Performed Automated Intelligence-Requirement Task to being an Automated Intelligence-Requirement Task.
  • It can range from being a Simple Intelligence Task to being a Complex Intelligence Task.
  • It can range from being a Independent Intelligence Task to being a Social Intelligence Task.
  • It can range from being a Rote Intelligence Task to being a Creative Intelligence Task.
  • It can (typically) be supported by: an Abstraction Task, Understanding Task, Communication Task, Judgement Task, Reasoning Task, Learning Task, Memorization, Planning, Theory of Mind, and Problem Solving.
  • It can be solved by an Intelligent System (that implements an intelligence algorithm).
  • It can be instantiate in an Act of Intelligence.
• Example(s):
  • a Game Playing Task.
  • a Question-Answering Task.
  • an Algorithm Design Task.
  • a Moral Decision Making Task, such as whether to help someone in need.
  • an Emotional Intelligence Task.
  • a Software Programming Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Face Recognition Task, a visual classification task.
  • a Random Number Generation Task.
• See: Social Intelligence, Self-Awareness, Agency Task.

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References

2015

• Yann LeCun. (2015). “Augmented Knowledge: Teaching Machines to Understand Us." EMTech-2015
  • QUOTE: Prediction is the essence of intelligence.

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
  • Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including, but not limited to, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving.

    Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but has also been observed in animals and in plants. Artificial intelligence is the simulation of intelligence in machines.

    Within the discipline of psychology, various approaches to human intelligence have been adopted. The psychometric approach is especially familiar to the general public, as well as being the most researched and by far the most widely used in practical settings.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Definitions
  • The definition of intelligence is controversial. Some groups of psychologists have suggested the following definitions:
  1. From “Mainstream Science on Intelligence” (1994), an editorial statement by fifty-two researchers:
     A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings — "catching on," "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.}}
  2. From “Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns” (1995), a report published by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association:
     Individuals differ from one another in their ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. Although these individual differences can be substantial, they are never entirely consistent: a given person's intellectual performance will vary on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria. Concepts of "intelligence" are attempts to clarify and organize this complex set of phenomena. Although considerable clarity has been achieved in some areas, no such conceptualization has yet answered all the important questions, and none commands universal assent. Indeed, when two dozen prominent theorists were recently asked to define intelligence, they gave two dozen, somewhat different, definitions.}}

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