Machine Super Intelligence
TL;DR — Shane Legg’s doctoral dissertation — a formal definition of machine intelligence, written before he co-founded DeepMind.
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Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, supervised by Marcus Hutter.
Legg’s project is to make ‘intelligence’ formally measurable: a universal intelligence measure defined over an agent’s performance across all computable environments, weighted by simplicity. From that he argues about what superintelligence would mean and what could be said about it in advance.
Written shortly before he co-founded DeepMind, which makes it the intellectual prehistory of a company now central to the field. Pairs with Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead.
Where this came from
200 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.