Elon Musk proposed “intelligence density per gigabyte” as a metric for AI adequacy — but what is intelligence, really? In this episode of This Is AGI, we dissect why IQ-style benchmarks and test scores create an operational (and often circular) definition of intelligence, using a physics analogy: measuring “weight” only by spring stretch without Newtonian gravity.

We also connect the argument to modern frontier model benchmarking (ARC-AGI, FrontierMath), and explain why today’s scores still don’t map cleanly to a single, theoretically grounded concept of intelligence — and what it would take to fix that.

Topics: AI benchmarks, frontier models, intelligence measurement, ARC-AGI, FrontierMath, evaluation theory, operational definitions, AGI.

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In this episode, Alex Chadyuk unpacks the meaning of intelligence density as recently discussed by Elon Musk. Although intelligence has no standard metric when it comes to artificial general intelligence (AGI), Alex describes how intelligence density per gigabyte can be compared given a specific model eval.Topics covered: AGI theory, intelligence metrics, AI evals, neural network compression, quantization vs distillation, self-driving AI, model efficiency, Elon Musk on AI, operational definitions of intelligence.Listen to This Is AGI for clear, technical, no-hype thinking about artificial general intelligence.

Are GPT models really intelligent—or are they just brilliant storytellers? In this episode of This Is AGI, Alex Chadyuk explores the critical difference between episodic and semantic memory, explains why today’s generative AI excels at narrative recall but lacks true world models, and argues why this gap separates modern GPTs from genuine artificial general intelligence (AGI). Expect a clear, thought-provoking analysis connecting human cognition, memory, and AI—challenging common assumptions about understanding, reasoning, and hallucinations in large language models.