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Ability to perceive, infer, retain or apply information

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: IntelligenceA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Revolutionizing healthcare: the role of artificial intelligence in clinical practiceInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Our Man in HavanaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: High-performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligenceCited 10,189 times
  5. Go sideways: Human intelligenceA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Emotional intelligenceA closely related topic

đź“– Definitions

Noun The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.

Noun An individual's expected relative performance in a cognitive test.

Noun The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

Noun An entity that has such capacities.

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