Recorded Intelligence

What is the "intelligence" AI aims to build? Taking inspiration from the mechanization of computing (formerly a human occupation) and from the inclusive spectrum of animal cognition, I argue there has always existed an honest, useful, and humble definition of intelligence that reveals itself as soon as we discard our unscientific sense of human exceptionalism. This is what AI should seek to mechanize.

There's structure in the data, and it's teaching the machine