“But the word «intelligence» commonly evokes pictures of the starving professor with an IQ of 160 and the billionaire CEO with an IQ of merely 120. Indeed there are differences of individual ability apart from «book smarts» which contribute to relative success in the human world: enthusiasm, social skills, education, musical talent, rationality. Note that each factor… is cognitive. Social skills reside in the brain, not the liver. And jokes aside, you will not find many CEOs, nor yet professors of academia, who are chimpanzees. You will not find many acclaimed rationalists, nor artists, nor poets, nor leaders, nor engineers, nor skilled networkers, nor martial artists, nor musical composers who are mice. Intelligence is the foundation of human power, the strength that fuels our other arts”
-Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI as a pos neg factor, around 2006
“But the word «intelligence» commonly evokes pictures of the starving professor with an IQ of 160 and the billionaire CEO with an IQ of merely 120. Indeed there are differences of individual ability apart from «book smarts» which contribute to relative success in the human world: enthusiasm, social skills, education, musical talent, rationality. Note that each factor… is cognitive. Social skills reside in the brain, not the liver. And jokes aside, you will not find many CEOs, nor yet professors of academia, who are chimpanzees. You will not find many acclaimed rationalists, nor artists, nor poets, nor leaders, nor engineers, nor skilled networkers, nor martial artists, nor musical composers who are mice. Intelligence is the foundation of human power, the strength that fuels our other arts”
-Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI as a pos neg factor, around 2006