If we understood a squirrel we would be almost all the way to understanding human intelligence; language is a small veneer on the surface.

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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

if we understood a squirrel I think we'd have a we'd be almost all the way there to understanding human intelligence. The the language part is just a a small veneer on the surface.

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