Innovations that unlock a broad swath of further abilities could be called “qualitatively more intelligent”. But 1. things that seem “narrow”, such as many math ideas, are qualitative increases in intelligence in this sense; and 2. there’s a lot of innovations that sure seem to obviously be qualitative increases.
Innovations that unlock a broad swath of further abilities could be called “qualitatively more intelligent”. But 1. things that seem “narrow”, such as many math ideas, are qualitative increases in intelligence in this sense; and 2. there’s a lot of innovations that sure seem to obviously be qualitative increases.