Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one.

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measuring intelligence What it would mean to measure intelligence in a machine, as opposed to measuring how well it does one task it was trained for.

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Richard Sutton 26 Sept 2025 Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning

For me, having a goal is the essence of intelligence

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