intelligence

Definition

The broad capacity to adapt to novel situations and act effectively toward goals — the I in artificial intelligence. Because no agreed technical definition exists, careful papers avoid asserting that a system is intelligent and instead operationalize the claim as performance on specified tasks. Treat the word in a title as framing rather than as a measurable property.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: JIT-Agent — A Model That Writes the Agent Harness On DemandJIT-Agent: Scaling Harness Intelligence via Just-in-Time Harness Evolution
• Paper Explained: VGI-Bench — Can Video Models Get the Middle of the Story Right?VGI-Bench: Probing Visual Intelligence in Video Generation Models
• Paper walkthrough: Apodex 1.1 — scaling agents around completed workApodex 1.1: Scaling Agentic Intelligence for Complex Work