Considering we have genetic similarity of 96% to a chimpanzee, and obviously a lot of that is NOT intelligence, I will venture the guess that we are merely one evolutionary step above other intelligent life on this planet. With many species trailing merely a single step behind like Elephants, dolphins and Chimpanzees that are somewhat equal to each other.
That one step may be very significant in implications of more sophisticated language ans abstract thinking, but imagine an alien species that has taken a few steps more, and are several steps higher to us than what we are to the chimpanzees.
I would absolutely reserve the term super-intelligence to something way more intelligent than humans.
Maybe AI will be such an intelligence in a few decades?
If you map the limitations of the human mind, and consider things that can be very hard that shouldn’t be, you can take peoples inability to remember names, or inability to remember a 10 digit number for just 5 seconds, how hard we find it to learn foreign languages properly despite they are a construct of our own species specifically for communication with each other. How hard some people find it to understand basic boolean logic etc. etc.
We are only barely intelligent, and definitely not super intelligent.
Edit PS:
If AI doubles in intelligence every 2 years, it will be 32 times smarter in 1 decade, 1024 in 2 decades and 32768 in 3 decades.
Even if the rate is less dramatic, I’m sure we soon will see intelligence way above ours.
We’re the most intelligent species that we know of, so at that scale saying we’re “super-intelligent” is reasonable. It’s extremely likely that there are far, far more intelligent life forms out there, but until we know about them this is what we have to work with.
If a class all flunk an exam, but one is slightly better than the others, would you call that pupil super intelligent?
As far as I can tell that is where humans are right now, humanity is flunking the most basic of exams extremely badly, with wars pollution and even destroying the planet. We are essentially undermining our own existence as a species. And by that comparison, almost all animals are more intelligent than us.
But you could argue the way we are committing suicide is very very clever, because lots of money is being made on it.
As mentioned above, our intelligence is extremely limited in many many ways, so calling it super-intelligence is just weird.
There’s nothing to flunk. Intelligence is simply how effectively a being can acquire and apply knowledge and skills. You’re describing wisdom, which is not the same thing. God didn’t say he made humans super-wise.
There absolutely is, we are flunking our own survival and undermining our own well being by doing harm to ourselves, and that is absolutely lack of the most basic evolutionary intelligence.
Also remembering a number with just a few digits for just a few seconds most definitely has NOTHING to do with wisdom, but everything to do with basic intelligence.
I am most definitely using basic examples of intelligence, and not of wisdom.
To claim for instance not committing suicide is a form of wisdom, is moronic.
What part exactly do you think reflect wisdom? What exam have you seen that test wisdom over intelligence?
Considering we have genetic similarity of 96% to a chimpanzee, and obviously a lot of that is NOT intelligence, I will venture the guess that we are merely one evolutionary step above other intelligent life on this planet. With many species trailing merely a single step behind like Elephants, dolphins and Chimpanzees that are somewhat equal to each other.
That one step may be very significant in implications of more sophisticated language ans abstract thinking, but imagine an alien species that has taken a few steps more, and are several steps higher to us than what we are to the chimpanzees.
I would absolutely reserve the term super-intelligence to something way more intelligent than humans.
Maybe AI will be such an intelligence in a few decades?
If you map the limitations of the human mind, and consider things that can be very hard that shouldn’t be, you can take peoples inability to remember names, or inability to remember a 10 digit number for just 5 seconds, how hard we find it to learn foreign languages properly despite they are a construct of our own species specifically for communication with each other. How hard some people find it to understand basic boolean logic etc. etc.
We are only barely intelligent, and definitely not super intelligent.
Edit PS:
If AI doubles in intelligence every 2 years, it will be 32 times smarter in 1 decade, 1024 in 2 decades and 32768 in 3 decades.
Even if the rate is less dramatic, I’m sure we soon will see intelligence way above ours.
Genetic similarity is a terrible metric. We also share 80% with a banana slug. I’d bet most of it is evolutionary baggage.
Evolution doesn’t reward compact code. Probably the opposite.
Good point.
We’re the most intelligent species that we know of, so at that scale saying we’re “super-intelligent” is reasonable. It’s extremely likely that there are far, far more intelligent life forms out there, but until we know about them this is what we have to work with.
If a class all flunk an exam, but one is slightly better than the others, would you call that pupil super intelligent?
As far as I can tell that is where humans are right now, humanity is flunking the most basic of exams extremely badly, with wars pollution and even destroying the planet. We are essentially undermining our own existence as a species. And by that comparison, almost all animals are more intelligent than us.
But you could argue the way we are committing suicide is very very clever, because lots of money is being made on it.
As mentioned above, our intelligence is extremely limited in many many ways, so calling it super-intelligence is just weird.
There’s nothing to flunk. Intelligence is simply how effectively a being can acquire and apply knowledge and skills. You’re describing wisdom, which is not the same thing. God didn’t say he made humans super-wise.
There absolutely is, we are flunking our own survival and undermining our own well being by doing harm to ourselves, and that is absolutely lack of the most basic evolutionary intelligence.
Also remembering a number with just a few digits for just a few seconds most definitely has NOTHING to do with wisdom, but everything to do with basic intelligence.
I am most definitely using basic examples of intelligence, and not of wisdom.
To claim for instance not committing suicide is a form of wisdom, is moronic.
What part exactly do you think reflect wisdom? What exam have you seen that test wisdom over intelligence?