Intelligence as the Effective Application of Compute
peterjliu · x · 2026-07-17
The post proposes a definition of intelligence: **Intelligence is the effective application of compute to problems**. The author adds that they default to viewing the human brain as a computational system (a Turing machine). A cited AI research perspective follows: smarter models often have a **higher cost per token**, but from a "task completion" standpoint, they can actually be **cheaper** on difficult tasks due to higher success rates and efficiency.
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