5/ But messed up ed-science had a big unintended effect: IQ became the anchoring concept in AI research, a truly bizarre event.
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6/ IQ is a singular, metric-based scientifically meaningless model of cognition (reduced to a legible "intelligence") created for HR needs..
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7/ Anchoring as generative an idea as "artificial cognition" in a pragmatic, unscientific HR instrument leads predictably to silly AI.
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8/ The idea of a singular superintelligence that beats humans on one or even a handful of historically arbitrary metrics is NOT significant
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9/ The very idea of "intelligence" as a model of cognition shares common roots with the _testing_ of the intelligence aspect of cognition
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10/ This is ultimately why the idea of the Singularity is so meaningless.
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11/ Going back to the nutrition analogy, it's like worrying a robot will beat all humans on cholesterol and lung capacity tests.
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12/ Buzzfeed 2020 headline: "Superhealthy Artificial Organism beats humans on cholesterol test on national TV"
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13/ So what's a better way to think about AI: Pinker was right that Moravec's Pardox is the most significant idea in AI so far. Here's why
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