

Goal-oriented behavior: behavior more easily explained via its effect than via its cause. Teleology: the explanation of things in terms of their goals and purposes rather than their causes. Qualia: individual instances of subjective experience.Įthics: principles that govern how we should behave. Super-intelligence: general intelligence far beyond human level.Ĭivilization: an interacting group of intelligent life forms. Human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI): ability to accomplish any cognitive task at least as well as humans. Universal intelligence: ability to acquire general intelligence given access to data and resources.

General intelligence: ability to accomplish virtually any goal, including learning. Narrow intelligence: the ability to accomplish a narrow set of goals. Intelligence: ability to accomplish complex goals.Īrtificial intelligence (AI): non-biological intelligence. Life 3.0: life that designs its hardware and software, technological stage. Life 2.0: life that evolves its hardware but designs much of its software, cultural stage. Life 1.0: life that evolves its hardware and software, biological stage. Life: a process that can maintain its complexity and replicate.
