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title: "Rationality and Intelligence"
authors:
  - "Stuart J. Russell"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/123"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0123.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "950-959"
track: "Awards"
keywords:
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# Rationality and Intelligence

Stuart J. Russell

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 950-959.

## Abstract

The long-term goal of our field is the creation and understanding of intelligence. Productive research in AI, both practical and theoretical, benefits from a notion of intelligence that is precise enough to allow the cumulative development of robust systems and general results. This paper outlines a gradual evolution in our formal conception of intelligence that brings it closer to our informal conception and simultaneously reduces the gap between theory and practice.