Actually by “different levels of intelligence” I meant your point that humans themselves have very different levels of intelligence, one from the other. That “human-level AI” is a very broad target, not a narrow one.
I’ve never seen it discussed does an AI require more computation to think about quantum physics than to think about what order to pick up items in the grocery store? How about training time? Is it a little more or orders of magnitude more? I don’t think it is known.
Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life—and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump of well people in the middle, though—where intelligence is not so widely distributed.
The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of that range will be gradually swallowed up.
More? If anything, I suspect thinking about quantum physics takes less intelligence; it’s just not what we’ve evolved to do. An abstraction inversion, of sorts.
Hm. I also have this pet theory that some past event (that one near-extinction?) has caused humans to have less variation in intelligence than most other species, thus causing a relatively egalitarian society. Admittedly, this is something I have close to zero evidence for—I’m mostly using it for fiction—but it would be interesting to see, if you’ve got evidence for or (I guess more likely) against.
Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life—and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump in the middle, though—where intelligence is not so widely distributed.
The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of the ability range will be swallowed up.
Actually by “different levels of intelligence” I meant your point that humans themselves have very different levels of intelligence, one from the other. That “human-level AI” is a very broad target, not a narrow one.
I’ve never seen it discussed does an AI require more computation to think about quantum physics than to think about what order to pick up items in the grocery store? How about training time? Is it a little more or orders of magnitude more? I don’t think it is known.
Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life—and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump of well people in the middle, though—where intelligence is not so widely distributed.
The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of that range will be gradually swallowed up.
More? If anything, I suspect thinking about quantum physics takes less intelligence; it’s just not what we’ve evolved to do. An abstraction inversion, of sorts.
Hm. I also have this pet theory that some past event (that one near-extinction?) has caused humans to have less variation in intelligence than most other species, thus causing a relatively egalitarian society. Admittedly, this is something I have close to zero evidence for—I’m mostly using it for fiction—but it would be interesting to see, if you’ve got evidence for or (I guess more likely) against.
Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life—and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump in the middle, though—where intelligence is not so widely distributed.
The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of the ability range will be swallowed up.