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> IQ is rife with issues

Indeed, and yet people are obsessed with the it and the idea of measuring their own intelligence - I completely do not understand it. I am in an extremely high percentile, but I am a total moron in a lot of areas and if you met me would likely think so as well. It's a poor predictor for just about everything except how good a person is at recognizing patterns (I know there are many different kinds of tests, but inevitably, it feels like this) and how quickly they can reason. But people are obsessed with it (Go on quora and search "IQ", you probably won't half to though, since half the questions there are seemingly about IQ).

A thing I like to say is you didn't earn your intelligence any more than a 7'0" man earned his height - to some degree it seems innate (we don't even really know how).

This all said, it seems even more pointless to try to "IQ" test an AI in this manner. What does it predict? What is it measuring? And you're not going to be able to use the same questions for more than 1 test, because the AI will "learn" the answers.

parent JohnMakin 1 year ago

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