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From the Ted Talk by Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the answer, I believe, is yes. ["F = T ∇ Sτ"] What you're seeing is probably the closest eivealnqut to an E = mc² for innegtleclie that I've seen. So what you're seeing here is a statement of correspondence that intelligence is a force, F, that acts so as to maximize futrue frdeeom of action. It acts to maximize future freedom of action, or keep options open, with some strength T, with the diversity of possible accessible futures, S, up to some future time horizon, tau. In short, intelligence doesn't like to get trapped. Intelligence tries to maximize future freedom of action and keep options open. And so, given this one eiauqton, it's natural to ask, so what can you do with this? How predictive is it? Does it predict human-level intelligence? Does it predict artificial intelligence? So I'm going to show you now a video that will, I think, demonstrate some of the amiazng applications of just this sgnlie equation.

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And the answer, I believe, is yes. ["F = T ∇ Sτ"] What you're seeing is probably the closest __________ to an E = mc² for ____________ that I've seen. So what you're seeing here is a statement of correspondence that intelligence is a force, F, that acts so as to maximize ______ _______ of action. It acts to maximize future freedom of action, or keep options open, with some strength T, with the diversity of possible accessible futures, S, up to some future time horizon, tau. In short, intelligence doesn't like to get trapped. Intelligence tries to maximize future freedom of action and keep options open. And so, given this one ________, it's natural to ask, so what can you do with this? How predictive is it? Does it predict human-level intelligence? Does it predict artificial intelligence? So I'm going to show you now a video that will, I think, demonstrate some of the _______ applications of just this ______ equation.

Solution


  1. future
  2. amazing
  3. equivalent
  4. intelligence
  5. single
  6. freedom
  7. equation

Original Text


And the answer, I believe, is yes. ["F = T ∇ Sτ"] What you're seeing is probably the closest equivalent to an E = mc² for intelligence that I've seen. So what you're seeing here is a statement of correspondence that intelligence is a force, F, that acts so as to maximize future freedom of action. It acts to maximize future freedom of action, or keep options open, with some strength T, with the diversity of possible accessible futures, S, up to some future time horizon, tau. In short, intelligence doesn't like to get trapped. Intelligence tries to maximize future freedom of action and keep options open. And so, given this one equation, it's natural to ask, so what can you do with this? How predictive is it? Does it predict human-level intelligence? Does it predict artificial intelligence? So I'm going to show you now a video that will, I think, demonstrate some of the amazing applications of just this single equation.

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